Yorkshire
Yorkshire is an historic county of England. (For more information about the ancient counties of the UK, see the historic counties page and the place types page.)
From The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72):
A maritime county in the N of England; much the largest of the English counties.
It is bounded, on the NW, by Westmoreland; on the N, by Durham; on the NE and the E, by the North sea; on the S, by Lincolnshire, Notts, and Derbyshire; on the SW, by Cheshire; on the W, by Lancashire.
The number of collieries in Yorkshire, in 1859, was 333; and the output of coal from them, in that year, was 8,357,100 tons. Ironstone abounds also in the NE; and is largely worked both here and in the SW.
The county is divided into York City, the East Riding, the North Riding, and the West Riding. The word riding is a corruption of the Saxon treding or trithing, signifying "third."
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