Yorkshire and the Humber Facts for Kids

Yorkshire and the Humber

Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the nine main regions of England. It covers most of the historic area known as Yorkshire. It also includes a part of northern Lincolnshire that used to be in a place called Humberside between 1974 and 1996.

The highest point in this region is Whernside, which is in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. It stands tall at 737 metres (about 2,418 feet). The biggest natural freshwater lake here is Hornsea Mere, located in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

In 2005, about 5,854,357 people lived in Yorkshire and the Humber.

What Makes Up Yorkshire and the Humber?

The region of Yorkshire and the Humber is divided into different areas for local government. These areas help manage things like schools, roads, and local services.

The main parts of the region include:

South Yorkshire, which has cities like Sheffield and Doncaster.
West Yorkshire, home to big cities such as Leeds and Bradford.
A part of North Yorkshire, which includes areas like Scarborough and the historic city of York.
The East Riding of Yorkshire, which includes the city of Kingston upon Hull.
Parts of Lincolnshire, specifically North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.

This region was first known as Yorkshire and Humberside. It was made up of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, and Humberside.

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Leeds
Bradford
York
Wakefield Cathedral
M62 Ouse Bridge, built in 1976
The Chain Bar Interchange on the M62, looking west, at the end of the M606, north of Cleckheaton
Leeds railway station is the busiest in the region.
A GNER InterCity 125 near York. The InterCity 125 set the current world speed record for a diesel train (148 mph) near Thirsk in 1987.
Leeds Bradford Airport is the busiest in the region.
The Pride of York (MS Norsea) ferry, which operates from Hull, in March 2010; the service to Rotterdam began in August 1965 and the service to Gothenburg (Göteborg) started in March 1966
The 4GW Drax power station's 850 foot chimney, built in May 1969, is the tallest in the UK; the power station burns 10 million tonnes of coal a year, via 30 trains a day. It has the second-largest electricity output in western Europe, after Neurath Power Station in western Germany
British Steel Limited steelworks at Scunthorpe
The 226-acre Novartis Grimsby in Great Coates, next to the Europarc in the west of Grimsby; it has been there since 1951, firstly as Ciba (Chemical Industry Basel) making sulfathiazole
Joseph Rank Ltd in Hull in January 2008
Theakston Visitor Centre in Masham
Optare bus factory in North Yorkshire, off the B1222
Asda's Headquarters, Asda House in Leeds; Asda was the UK's second largest supermarket until 2014, and is now third; Asda turned over £23.3bn in 2015, and is the region's largest company
Hallmark Cards UK factory off the A650 (Tong Street), the view on Dawson Lane
Former Castleford Nestlé factory in 2008
Chesterfield Special Cylinders, directly north of Meadowhall on the B6082, on the former site of the historic Yorkshire Engine Company
Gripple factory on the A6109 in Burngreave
Cadbury Trebor Bassett at the former Bassett's factory in Owlerton
Liberty Speciality Steels Primary Mill continuous casting site in Aldwarke (Rotherham) in December 2007
Macalloy threaded tension bar at Mariinsky Theatre in Russia
ASOS distribution centre (former Prologis before 2010) being built in 2006 at Little Houghton
South Hunsley School
The University of Leeds – looking towards the Roger Stevens Building
Harrogate Grammar School
BBC in Queen's Gardens, Hull
Harry Ramsden's in Guiseley
Sheffield Supertram in 1998
Syngenta (former ICI Organics, then Zeneca Agrochemicals until 1993) works on the A62 in Huddersfield; it makes herbicides and cyhalothrin insecticide
Haribo factory in Pontefract on the A639 in the centre of the town near Tanshelf station

Yorkshire and the Humber facts for kids

What Makes Up Yorkshire and the Humber?

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