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By Doug Kennedy

Yorkshire is by means of a long way the most important county in England, taking on lots of the land region from Sheffield within the south to Cleveland within the north. overlaying the sort of huge zone among the North Sea and the Pennine watershed, the diversity of landscapes is awesome, and during this publication you'll get a flavor of a lot of it. Our journey begins within the rolling, hugely urbanised south, then climbs into the Pennines the place excessive heather-clad moorland is bisected via valleys packed with business history. Heading north, the panorama transforms into the limestone pavements and glacial valleys of the Dales the place sheep graze peacefully on excessive grassland. The crucial simple of York is the subsequent quarter with its old castles and fertile farmland lower than a big sky. To the east rises the scarp of the North Yorkshire Moors the place excessive moorland and distant valleys stretch the entire strategy to the gull-strewn North Sea cliffs. Turning south, we discover the light geographical region of the Yorkshire Wolds. the ultimate vacation spot is the banks of the River Humber from the economic simple to Yorkshire's furthest outpost at Spurn Head. Doug Kennedy has roamed Yorkshire's lanes, byways and footpaths, looking for what makes each one position targeted and using his photographer’s eye to trap the scene completely in luxurious photographic pictures. those are complemented by means of informative textual content that will get beneath the outside of why issues seem like they do. it's a booklet for everybody who loves the Yorkshire to treasure, and a best advent to its panorama for these much less acquainted with 'God's personal County'.

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