Yorkshire – A Little-Visited Place
Yorkshire is a massive place, but to be honest I’ve not been there very often while I’ve been a geocacher. At least, I’ve not been there enough to write many long posts about the place. I’ve driven through it a lot, but rarely stayed for any length of time. That means this page isn’t going to have a lot of writing on it unless get my proverbial posterior in gear and get north a bit.
The Geography
You could write several weighty tomes just on the subject of Yorkshire’s historical boundaries. Various bits around the edges have been soaked up or chopped off to suit. So, according to wikipedia, the boundary was fairly stable from the Middle Ages up to the Victorian period, it’s been fiddled with many times since.
At present, it is split into four Ceremonial Counties (North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire. These vary in character greatly.
In geocaching terms, Yorkshire is big enough to be a whole “region” of England, with those ceremonial counties being subdivisions of the region.
However, I’ve cached there so infrequently that there’s frankly no point in having a post for each individual ceremonial county. At the time of writing this post, only one of them (West) would have a post on it. So for now I will leave the place to be special in a sort of neglected way.
I suppose though, that now I have moved to the East Midlands it is much easier for me to go to Yorkshire. The south is only an hour away. Theoretically, even the top is now only a couple of hours rather than three or four. That sounds like the makings of a plan. Or at least a concept. Watch this page for updates.
Individual Posts
So here are all the geocaching blog posts I’ve written for trips to Yorkshire.
