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This volume sheds light on the pride of the region
- the great medieval churches of York Minster the Minster & St Mary at Beverley
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This title features Huddersfield Halifax & trans-Pennine routes. It also talks about: Skipton & the southern end of the Settle & Carlisle line; Airedale & Wharfedale; the industrial heartlands of Leeds & Bradford; the Dewsbury area
- main lines & branches; lines around Harrogate; & the railway city of York.
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A full account of the part played by Yorkshire's airfields during the Second World War. The history of each airfield is described with the squadrons & aircraft based at them & the main operations flown. The effects of the war on the daily lives of civilians & the constant dangers from raids & night bombing are also detailed. Fully illustrated. ...

Yorkshire CCC On This Day revisits all the most magical & memorable moments from the countys distinguished cricketing past mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdotes & legendary characters to produce an irresistibly dippable diary of Yorkshire history
- with an entry for every day of the year. From the clubs Victorian foundation to the Twenty 20 era at a floodlit Headingley the whole glorious Yorkshire gamut of incidents great matches huge crowds & controversies is covered
- from the occasion when a game started twice to the time when a Yorkshireman captained South Africa & even when a Yorkshire cricketer rode a Grand National winner. Fully endorsed by the club this immense wealth of history nostalgia & irresistible trivia forms a backdrop against which county heroes
- names such as Fred Trueman Brian Close & Lord Hawke Hedley Verity Darren Gough & Sir Leonard Hutton
- all loom larger than life.



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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. ...