The Spirit of Yorkshire

Yorkshire Day is held Globally on the 1st August every year to celebrate Yorkshire’s unique culture and dialect.
Yorkshire is the largest county in the UK. It stretches from the North Sea coast deep into and over the Pennines, and from the River Tees to the Humber and further south inland.
The unofficial anthem of Yorkshire is the popular folk song On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at (“On Ilkley Moor without a hat”),
The area around Haworth is known as Bronte Country in recognition for the three Brontë sisters’ contribution to English literature. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is perhaps best known.
There are 40 individual Yorkshire Dales
York Minster is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe, it took 252 years to build in its present form and contains 128 medieval stained glass windows.
Yorkshire hosted the Grand Depart of the Tour de France in 2014. Christian Prudhomme - the race director, described Yorkshire's Grand Depart as the "grandest" in the 111-year history of the race.

Yorkshire has nearly a third of the total area of National Parks in England (the North York Moors, most of the Yorkshire Dales and part of the Peak District) covering a fifth of the region’s land area.
Yorkshire can lay claim to having England's highest pub - The Tan Hill Inn at 1,732 ft above sea level.
Yorkshire has over 2,600 ancient monuments of national importance (14% of the English total), 800 conservation areas and 116 registered parks & gardens.
If Yorkshire were an independent country it would have finished an incredible twelfth on the league table in the 2012 Olympics, gaining 7 Golds, 2 Silvers and 3 Bronze.
The county's most well-known delicacy, by far, is the Yorkshire pudding. This is not all there is to Yorkshire food though - Wensleydale cheese originates from here and the Rhubarb Triangle is situated in West Yorkshire
The George Hotel in Huddersfield is the official birthplace of rugby league. The sport's code originated there at a meeting of northern club owners in 1895.

The total length of rivers in the Yorkshire Dales is nearly 540 miles
The Pennine Way, which runs for 268 miles through Yorkshire and continues all the way to the Scottish border, was the UK's first ever National Trail, opened in 1965.
There are roughly 4,700 miles of dry stone walls in the Yorkshire Dales
The National Park contains 1,714 listed buildings and 203 scheduled monuments.
Harry Potter filming used Grassington Moor and the limestone pavements above Malham Cove as locations.
The skills to make cheese in Wensleydale were introduced in 1150.
As well as the famous falls, Aysgarth boasts the largest churchyard in England
At over 900 years old, Skipton Castle is one of the most complete and best preserved medieval castles in England and is fully roofed.
Doncaster Racecourse hosts the St Leger, the world's oldest and longest classic horse race. First run in 1776, the course is one mile, six furlongs, and 132 yards in length.
Sheffield FC is the oldest association football club in the world, formed in 1857. As such, Sheffield is recognised by FIFA and UEFA as the birthplace of club football.
Ripon is Britain's oldest city. It was granted a charter by Alfred the Great in 886.