It's Yorkshire Day! What's your favourite thing about Yorkshire?

Rachel_Scope
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Happy Yorkshire Day! Celebrated every year on August 1st, this special day honours the historic county of Yorkshire for its rich heritage and stunning landscapes. I'm a born and bred Yorkshire girl and I'm lucky enough to live in a beautiful village surrounded by the moors.

I think one of my favourite things about Yorkshire is the friendliness. Everyone will usually say hello as they pass you on the street, and what's even better is that a lot of people have dogs and I love getting to meet them!

Are you from Yorkshire? Have you visited? Do you make your own Yorkshire puddings or get them frozen?? Let us know 😊

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  • Rag_793
    Rag_793 Community Member Posts: 432 Empowering
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    I am from Lancashire originally 😬

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,569 Online Community Team

    Oh dear @Rag_793! Have you visited Yorkshire? I used to spend quite a bit of time in Lancashire, specifically Garstang. They have a lovely garden centre there, but it's obviously not as good as what we have here 😉

  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 2,077 Championing

    My dad use to say the best thing about Yorkshire was the road into Lancashire….

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,755 Championing

    My maternal grandmother was from Lancashire, she was brought up here in 1922, when her old man signed for Dundee Hibernian ( Now Dundee United) at the end of his playing career.

    I would have to research it, but I think he had been at Blackburn Rovers previously.

  • Rag_793
    Rag_793 Community Member Posts: 432 Empowering
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    Been to Yorkshire many a time over the years

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 5,341 Championing
    edited August 2

    I've never been to Yorkshire but love Yorkshire tea.

    Its the only tea I drink.

    My favourite day is Monday here during the tourist season.

    Its generally a bit quieter on exchange days.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,752 Connected

    Oi, don't be starting all that "Wars of the Roses" stuff, you know Jenny on The Chase? If she wasn't already married, I'd be in love, even if she is a Lancashire girl.

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,569 Online Community Team

    Glad you like our tea @luvpink! I'm a green tea drinker myself but I've heard it's very nice. We get a fair few tourists here too and lots of places are closed on Mondays.

    2 of my closest friends are from Lancashire, I try not to hold it against them 😉

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,173 Championing
    edited August 2

    My favourite thing about Yorkshire is that it's in Yorkshire. I agree that northerners are much nicer people.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,173 Championing
    edited August 2
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    I stayed with a friend who took me to York Minster and Yorkshire Sculpture Park with our girls.

    Driving home over the moors as it got dark was the creepiest journey I've ever had…

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 5,541 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I have been to Yorkshire twice, once to Leeds and the other time to Sheffield but both times I was only up there for a day and didn't really see much! Would love to go back up and have a few days up there, the Yorkshire Dales look stunning😍

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community Member Posts: 15,514 Championing
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  • Holly_Alumni
    Holly_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 6,534 Championing

    Definitely the people! 🙌

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community Member Posts: 15,514 Championing
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    I was born down south but lots of my family are Yorkshirish so we go there a lot. I don't get it, I always try to compensate for confirmation bias when it comes to stereotypes but I totally notice people are friendlier up North… it's like when you pass the Peak District there's this invisible line after which people suddenly have permission to speak to strangers!

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,752 Connected

    I've lived with and met Southerners/Londoners who think anywhere North of the M25's in another Universe….

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,142 Online Community Team

    The M25 is our comfort blanket @SheffieldMan1976. Everywhere else is Far Away and Scary. And how do you expect us to cope with being more than 30 seconds away from a Pret a Manger?! 😂

    I'm only joking.

    Yorkshire is beautiful. We've got friends who live on the edge of the Dales and it's always a pleasure to spend time there. People definitely are friendlier!

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community Member Posts: 15,514 Championing

    @SheffieldMan1976

    The thing is, everything is so close together in London but it also takes so long to get anywhere.

    I heard an ex-Londoner refer to something "up the next street" where he used to live; but he then added that that was half an hour away. Outside of London, half an hour can get you through an entire county.

    I've been travelling into Central London a bit recently from Bedfordshire, which is about 45 miles. It's not uncommon that the first 40 miles is less than one-third of the journey time. 😅

  • Starman
    Starman Community Member Posts: 2,170 Empowering
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    I'm a born and bred Yorkie who moved to Scotland 13 years ago. It's such a big county, so i suppose it's the variety that i used to love, being from West Yorkshire, big cities like Leeds, Bradford etc, then the amazing countryside, the moors, the dales, then the coastline with Whitby, Scarborough etc was about an hour and a half away from me. I do miss some aspects of living there, but also parts of it just weren't the same, a lot had changed and not for the better, but i do like going back when i can. 🙂

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,569 Online Community Team

    It's so nice to see your positive experiences with Yorkshire 😊 It's especially lovely to hear some of you say that northerners are friendly. I agree, we are!

    I love the Yorkshire Sculpture Park @WhatThe. It's wonderful on a sunny day with a picnic.

    @SwiftFox I used to love Yorkies, despite their anti-girls advertising, so I thought I'd have one the other day. It was so disappointing. Nothing like it used to be.

    I'm from South but live in West Yorkshire now @Starman in the countryside. It's beautiful here but I do miss being closer to Whitby.

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