Yorkshire
Yorkshire has a strong cultural identity and offers visitors a wonderful variety of thriving urban centres, important historic towns and world renowned countryside.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Sheffield and Leeds.
Sheffield
The original Steel City, Sheffield is one place most have heard of, but isn't usually on many travellers' bucket lists. If this is you, you're missing out.
Leeds
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Leeds is the largest city in the county of West Yorkshire and the third largest city in Britain, though its urban area size falls behind that of Manchester.
York
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The ancient cathedral city of York has a history dating back over 2000 years. Romans, Saxons, Vikings, and Britons from all eras have each left their mark.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.
North Yorkshire
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North Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in northern England. Yorkshire was a huge county, the largest in England, so it was traditionally divided into three "ridings" which were later re-organised into four counties.
West Yorkshire
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West Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in the north of England. It's largely urban, but with a surprising amount of countryside, especially in the Pennine hills to the west.
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is the southern county of Yorkshire in the north of England. Much of it is industrial, but its western reaches in the Pennine hills have lonely moorlands and scenic valleys.East Yorkshire
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East Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in the north of England. It's mostly rural, but there's an industrial strip along the banks of the Humber Estuary.
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Yorkshire
- Type: Locality with 3,980,000 residents
- Description: historic county of England
- Also known as: “County of York”, “God’s own county”, “God’s Own County”, and “Yorkshire, England”
- Categories: historic county of England and historical region
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Yorkshire from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yorkshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Yorkshire”
- Arabic: “يوركشاير”
- Armenian: “Յորքշիր”
- Azerbaijani: “Yorkşir”
- Basque: “Yorkshire konderria”
- Basque: “Yorkshire”
- Belarusian: “Графства Ёркшыр”
- Belarusian: “Ёркшыр”
- Bhojpuri: “यार्कशायर”
- Bhojpuri: “यॉर्कशायर”
- Breton: “Yorkshire”
- Bulgarian: “Йоркшър”
- Catalan: “Yorkshire”
- Cebuano: “Yorkshire”
- Central Kurdish: “یۆرکشایر”
- Chechen: “Йоркшир”
- Chinese: “Yorkshire”
- Chinese: “約克郡”
- Chinese: “約郡”
- Chinese: “约克郡”
- Chinese: “约郡”
- Cornish: “Conteth Evrek”
- Czech: “Yorkshire”
- Danish: “Yorkshire”
- Dutch: “Graafschap York”
- Dutch: “Yorkshire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يوركشير”
- Esperanto: “graflando Jorko”
- Esperanto: “Jorkio”
- Esperanto: “Jorkŝiro”
- Estonian: “Yorkshire”
- Finnish: “Yorkshire”
- French: “Yorkshire”
- Galician: “Yorkshire”
- Georgian: “იორკშირი”
- German: “Yorkshire and the Humber”
- German: “Yorkshire”
- Greek: “Γιορκσάιρ”
- Greek: “Γιόρκσερ”
- Greek: “Γιόρκσιρ”
- Hebrew: “יורקשייר”
- Hungarian: “Yorkshire”
- Icelandic: “Jórvíkurskíri”
- Icelandic: “Yorkshire”
- Ido: “Yorkshire”
- Indonesian: “Yorkshire”
- Interlingua: “Yorkshire”
- Irish: “Yorkshire”
- Italian: “Yorkshire”
- Japanese: “ヨークシャー”
- Kannada: “ಯಾರ್ಕ್ಷೈರ್”
- Kannada: “ಯಾರ್ಕ್ಷೈರ್”
- Kazakh: “Йоркшир”
- Korean: “요크셔”
- Kurdish: “Yorkshire”
- Latin: “Isuria”
- Latvian: “Jorkšīra”
- Lezghian: “Йоркшир”
- Lithuanian: “Jorkšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Yorkshire”
- Macedonian: “Јоркшир”
- Malay: “Yorkshire”
- Marathi: “यॉर्कशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yorkshire”
- Mingrelian: “იორკშირი”
- Mingrelian: “იორქშირი”
- Nepali: “योर्कसायर”
- Northern Frisian: “Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yorkshire”
- Norwegian: “Yorkshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yorkshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eoferwicscīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eoforwīcsċīr”
- Ossetian: “Йоркшир”
- Persian: “یورکشایر”
- Persian: “یورکشر و هامبر”
- Persian: “یورکشر”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Yorkshire”
- Polish: “Jorkszyr”
- Polish: “Yorkshire”
- Portuguese: “Yorkshire”
- Romanian: “Yorkshire”
- Russian: “Йоркшир”
- Scots: “Yorkshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Eabhrac”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Eabhraig”
- Serbian: “Јоркшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yorkshire”
- Slovak: “Yorkshire”
- Slovenian: “Yorkshire”
- Spanish: “condado de York”
- Spanish: “York”
- Spanish: “Yorkshire”
- Swedish: “Yorkshire”
- Tajik: “Йоркшир”
- Tamil: “யார்க்சையர்”
- Thai: “ยอร์กเชอร์”
- Thai: “ยอร์คเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Yorkshire”
- Ukrainian: “Йоркшир”
- Urdu: “یارکشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de York”
- Vietnamese: “Yorkshire”
- Volapük: “Yorkshire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Efrog”
- Western Frisian: “Yorkshire”
- Western Panjabi: “یارکشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “约克郡”
- Yiddish: “יארקשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “約郡”
- “Yorkshire”
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