Geography of the beautyful county of Yorkshire

Geography of the beautyful county Yorkshire

Yorkshire is the largest historic county of England and Great Britain.
1974 Yorkshire became divided in the new counties West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, East Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.
The area of Yorkshire is 15.420km² where 4.064.383 people live.

The parts of Yorkshire

North Yorkshire:

North Yorkshire borders on Cleveland, Durham, Cumbria, Langcashire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Yorkshire. In North Yorkshire are big parts of the famous Yorkshire Dales.
They're high mountains of sandstone with abrubt territory of mountains, moors and big areas of feedlot for sheep. It's dividing in pictorial dry-stone walls. The dales are valleys in form of a U and a V in the north of the river Wharfe which were formed of glaciers from the ice time.
Two other rivers Ouse and Derwent flow through North Yorkshire, too. Famouos for Noth Yorkshire are also the North York Moors which are pulpy moorlands.
The Yorkshire three peeks Whernside (736m), Inglborough (723m) and Pen-y-ghent (694m) which are in the Yorkshire Dales are very famous, too. The material from the peeks is on the whole from fine and coarse limestone. For this reason the peeks have a look like steps. The three peaks are a part of the Pennies (mountains in noth England), and arrange around the region of the river Ribble in the Yorkshire Dales in the north of England. In the reagion are famous cavern and the highest waterfall (Fell Beck, 110m) of England. On the peak Ingleborough are also big hills for tress from the ice time.
(area of North Yorkshire: 8654km²)

South Yorkshire:

South Yorkshire which was educated fromthe south part of West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England. It borders on Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
The Peak District is a sight in South Yorkshire. It' s a Highland area in central- and north England. The Peak District streches across Deryshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire as soon as West- and South Yorkshire. The first part of the Peak District became the first National Park of England.
(area of South Yorkshire: 1552km²)

East Yorkshire:

East Yorkshire is a part of the traditional county Yorkshire. It borders on the ceremonial counties North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Earlier East Yorkshire was called "East Yorkshire and the Humberside" after the devisions in ridings.
The Humber is a river on the east coast of north England and goes from the North Sea through East Yorkshire and is originating from the rivers Ouse and Trent. Earlier the name "Yorkshire and the Humberside" was also called from the river Humber, but today the county only is called East Yorkshire.
(area of East Yorkshire: 2479km²)

West Yorkshire:

West Yorkshire borders on Lincolnshire, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire and North- and South Yorkshire.
Emely Moor which is a moor area lies in West Yorkshire. Before the Emely Moor was a place for transmitters (19565), there stood a 135m high tower of steel. Til 1964 it has been the highest building of Europa, but then a higher mast od steel was built.
The river Aire which is 259km long is the fourth biggest river in Great Britain. It flows through West Yorkshire and through the town Leeds and Airedale.
Another famous sight to visit is Kristall Ebbey, a huk in Leeds which was started to be built in 1152 and was finished in 1182.
(area of West Yorkshire: 2209km²)

Yorkshire and the Humberside

Humberside which was from 1974 to 1996 a county in England has been since 1996 disabanded, again.
The county was built around the estuary of the river Humber in 1974 and is placed at the side of North, South and West Yorkshire. The administrative office was in Beverley a town in Humberside.
On the east of Humberside is the North Sea. It borders on the the biggest city of the Humberside: Kingston-upon-Hall
Today Kingston-upon-Hall is the most important seaport of the middle-english North Sea.

Susanne Bayer, Beate Hummel