Yorkshire and the Humber
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 Yorkshire and the Humber region shown within England |
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| Geography | |
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| Status | Region |
| Area — Total |
Ranked 5th 15,420 km² |
| NUTS 1 | UKE |
| Demographics | |
| Population — Total — Density |
Ranked 6th 5,063,900 (2005) 328/km² |
| Government | |
| HQ | Leeds / Sheffield |
| Assembly — Type |
Yorkshire and Humber non-directly elected |
| European parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Website | |
Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the regions of England. It covers most of the historic county of Yorkshire, along with the part of northern Lincolnshire that was previously in the administrative area of Humberside (which existed 1974-1996).
It is one of the two regions (along with the North West) that were expected to have a referendum about the establishment of an elected regional assembly. The North East region of England recently rejected having an elected regional assembly in a referendum. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott subsequently announced that he would not move orders for other referendums before the relevant provisions expired in June, 2005. The Yorkshire and Humberside Assembly quango is in Wakefield.
The highest point of the region is Whernside, in the Yorkshire Dales, at 737 metres. The largest freshwater lake is Hornsea Mere in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The population in 2005 was 5,854,357.
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[edit] Local government
The official region consists of the following subdivisions:
| Map | Ceremonial county | County/ unitary | Districts |
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South Yorkshire * | 1. Sheffield 2. Rotherham 3. Barnsley 4. Doncaster |
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| West Yorkshire * | 5. Wakefield 6. Kirklees 7. Calderdale 8. Bradford 9. Leeds |
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| North Yorkshire (part only) |
10. North Yorkshire † | Selby Harrogate Craven Richmondshire Hambleton Ryedale Scarborough |
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| 11. York | |||
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 12. East Riding of Yorkshire | ||
| 13. Kingston upon Hull | |||
| Lincolnshire (part only) |
14. North Lincolnshire | ||
| 15. North East Lincolnshire | |||
Key: shire county = † | metropolitan county = *
It was originally called Yorkshire and Humberside, and defined as North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Humberside. Since then, Humberside has been abolished, and the councils of West and South Yorkshire abolished, and York has seceded from North Yorkshire. The older form of the name is still occasionally seen.
[edit] Education
Schools are mostly comprehensive, with some grammar schools in North Yorkshire, Calderdale and Kirklees. The schools in Hull perform the worst in the UK at GCSE. Also at GCSE, schools in Barnsley, Bradford, Doncaster and North-East Lincolnshire have low-achieving results with Barnsley the worst of these. All four of these areas coincidentally have an above-average teenage pregnancy problem. For the metropolitan areas, Calderdale and Wakefield perform the best, although slightly under the UK average. North Yorkshire performs the best at GCSE in the region, and with the East Riding of Yorkshire and York have results above the UK average. At A-level Hull, North Lincolnshire, Kirklees and North Yorkshire perform quite well with Kirklees being the best by a large margin, and with Wakefield have results above the UK average. The excellent Kirklees result is due to Greenhead College in Huddersfield. The districts of South Yorkshire perform the least in the area at A level, and all of these districts achieve similar results, much lower than those in the former districts of Humberside. Hull and northern Lincolnshire have a wide socio-economic diversity - many under-achieving pupils at 16 but with high performers at A-level. Such areas are suited to selective education. Effectively in these two areas, selection is taking place - at 16.
[edit] Top ten state schools in Yorkshire and the Humber (2006 A level results)
- 1. Ermysted's Grammar School (1125)
- 2. Greenhead College
- 3. Ripon Grammar School
- 4. Skipton Girls' High School
- 5. Crossley Heath Grammar School
- 6. Heckmondwike Grammar School
- 7. Ilkley Grammar School
- 8. Huntington School
- 9. St. Aidan's & St. John Fisher Associated Sixth Form
- 10. Benton Park School (901)
[edit] Local media
- Local BBC television comes from Leeds and Hull. Yorkshire Television is on Kirkstall Road in the west of Leeds, which broadcasts Calendar.
- BBC Radios Leeds, York, Humberside and Sheffield.
- Local commercial stations include The Pulse of West Yorkshire (Bradford), Dearne FM (Barnsley), Trax FM (Doncaster), Compass FM (Grimsby), Ridings FM (Wakefield), 96.3 Radio Aire (Leeds), Galaxy Yorkshire, Minster FM (York), 97.2 Stray FM (Harrogate), Viking FM (Hull) and Hallam FM (Sheffield).
- Local newspapers are the Yorkshire Evening Post, Yorkshire Post, Bradford Telegraph and Argus, The Press (York), Scarborough Evening News, Sheffield Star, Hull Daily Mail, Scunthorpe Telegraph, Wakefield Express, Huddersfield Examiner and Evening Courier.
[edit] External links
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Regions of England: East • East Midlands • London • North East • North West • South East • South West • West Midlands • Yorkshire and the Humber |
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Barnsley • Bradford • Calderdale • Craven • Doncaster • East Riding of Yorkshire • Hambleton • Harrogate • Hull • Kirklees • Leeds • North Lincolnshire • North East Lincolnshire • Richmondshire • Rotherham • Ryedale • Scarborough • Selby • Sheffield • Wakefield • York
Counties with multiple districts: North Yorkshire - South Yorkshire - West Yorkshire
