This title lets you relive every exciting moment of Yorkshire County Cricket Club's 2012 season in which they gained promotion in the LV= County Championship ahead of this year's 150th anniversary of the club & also earned a place in the Twenty 20 Champions League in South Africa by virtue of reaching our domestic t 20 Finals Day for the first time. The 115th edition of the County's Yearbook continues its long tradition of providing Yorkshire members & supporters with a wide range of informative articles that will appeal to all age groups. It is backed up with splendid photographs which help one to recall vividly the highlights of the amazingly successful 2012 season plus a host of statistics & full scorecards of all the First XI & Second XI matches. This special edition commemorating 150 years of YCCC
Includes:: full review of the 2012 season; complete scorecards of all Yorkshire first class & one-day matches in 2012; updated Yorkshire records; special features to commemorate Yorkshire CCC's 150th anniversary; spotlight on three outstanding players from periods 1863-1913 1913-1963 & 1963-2013; feature on the Noble Patrons of Yorkshire CCC; President Geoffrey Boycott on his love of Yorkshire CCC; article on Joe Root's rise to Test match status; book reviews including The Sweetest Rose 150 years of Yorkshire County Cricket Club by Yearbook editor David Warner; Fixtures for 2013; flashbacks to 1963 & 1913 & much much more.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

This book is the first in an exciting new series that tells the story of some of Britains most beautiful landscapes. Written with the general reader
- the walker the lover of the countryside
- firmly in mind this opens the door onto a fascinating story of ancient oceans forests shallow seas & ice. Over millions of years the stunning limestone landscape has been laid down at the bottom of tropical seas deformed by movements in the earths crust & shaped giant glaciers & in our own time the simple effects of rivers & rain water.

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The landscape & people are the two most distinctive qualities of the Yorkshire Dales & this book employs new sources & methods to help the reader see both in a different light. In earlier centuries religious & social factors influenced the first names that were given to children. Distinctive surnames were inherited & their expansion or decline can throw light on local communities on migration & population growth. Place-names emerged from regional & customary practices that illuminate topography husbandry mining communications & much more. Thebook also uses material from Quarter Sessions title deeds wills & other documents to investigate a wide range of topics that touch on the lives of individuals & families from religious dissent to sheep-stealing & vagrancy. There is emphasis too on the poor showing the impact on families & communities of bastardy fire flood violence & other disasters. A book written for anyone interested in the local & family history of the Yorkshire Dales. Dr George Redmonds is a local historian with a life-long interest in name studies. In 1973 he wrote Yorkshire: West Riding the first volume in the English Surnames Series & in 2001 he presented the BBC Radio 4 series Surnames Genes & Geneaology. Recent publications include Surnames & Geneaology (1997) Christian Names in Local & Family History (2003) Names & History: People Places & Things (2003) & The Place-Names of Huddersfield (2008). The Making of Huddersfield (2003) has recently been reprinted by Wharncliffe Books. George is a well-known lecturer at international conferences. ...

Mark Denton captures the drama & beauty of one of Englands most treasured landscapes. From broad open dales to bleak uplands & isolated high hills Mark Dentons panoramic camera reveals the ever-changing light on both renowned & unheralded places. An essay by Richard Mabey describes his first acquaintance with the Dales & his growing understanding & appreciation of this unique landscape. This is the concluding volume in Mark Dentons Yorkshire Trilogy following Yorkshire Coast & Yorkshire Moors & Wolds. Mark Denton is one of Britains most acclaimed young landscape photographers described by Joe Cornish as one of the few photographers to have mastered the large panoramic camera & he uses it to capture landscape in all its drama depth & colour.. .the result is a unique body of work. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Following the huge success of his portrait of The Yorkshire Coast Mark Denton presents a further collection of his remarkable panoramic photographs. This time he takes as his subject the Yorkshire Moors & Wolds two very different landscapes separated by the Vale of Pickering & encompassing forests remote farmlands dramatic rocky landscapes & gently rolling hills. In these images Mark Denton captures some of the most atmospheric varied enchanting & little-known areas in the whole country. ...

Yorkshire People & Coal is the third title in Peter Tuffreys Yorkshire People series featuring photographs from the Yorkshire Posts picture archives. This volume makes use of the wealth of pictures & information held in the Yorkshire Posts archives on the countys long association with coal. Peter believes there has never been a period in coal minings long history as eventful as the previous forty to fifty years & many of the pictures contained here are from that time. Images have been carefully selected to show how coal has had a wide-ranging effect on Yorkshire life. Most aspects of colliery life are depicted & not surprisingly several themes dominate throughout: disasters strikes & pit closures. It might be that coal is becoming a fading memory to those who lived through the trials & tribulations of the past fifty or more years & present generations might find it hard to imagine a time when it was relied upon to provide heating energy & a means of travel. However it cannot be denied that coal has left an indelible mark on Yorkshires long industrial history & its final glory years are aptly portrayed in Yorkshire People & Coal. ...