Yorkshire
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Yorkshire is an area of Northern England which was historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its original county town, the city of York.
Image: 2015 Swaledale from Kisdon Hill
Image: York Minster (geograph 4137528)
Image: Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire, UK, 08082015, jcw 1967 (2) (32756164823)
Statue of Constantine I outside York Minster.
Northern England
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Northern England, also known as the North of England, or simply the North, is the northern area of England. It partly corresponds to the former borders of Anglian Northumbria, the Anglo-Scandinavian Kingdom of Jorvik and the Brythontic Celtic Hen Ogledd kingdoms.
Scafell Pike, England's highest peak, alongside Wastwater, its deepest lake
Urban sprawl in the southern Pennines and north east coast is clearly visible in night-time imagery.
The daffodils of the Lake District are immortalised in Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".
Rudston Monolith, from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, is the tallest megalith in Great Britain.