Yorkshire Day, celebrating county identity on August 1

cultureAug 1, 20261115,187

Yorkshire Day on 1 August unites communities across the historic county to celebrate Yorkshire’s heritage, landscape, culture and people. RealCounties and other organisers are encouraging people across the whole historic county to fly the Yorkshire flag and share county stories, stressing that Yorkshire comprises the City of York and the North, East and West Ridings rather than current council boundaries. The event was established by the Yorkshire Ridings Society in 1975 and the date alludes to the regimental anniversary of the Battle of Minden and to William Wilberforce’s campaign linked to emancipation in 1834. Goole in the West Riding is the official Yorkshire Day host town in 2026, marking the town’s bicentenary year, and the civic celebration brings together mayors and other civic representatives. Organisers and RealCounties argue that local government reorganisations and changing council names do not diminish the historic county, which they say provides a permanent framework for heritage, tourism, education and identity. The House of Lords recently highlighted historic counties as a national bond and singled out Yorkshire as an example of strong historic-county identity.

Paul Bronks

@slendersherbet.bsky.social

In celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.

189445d ago

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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉19

this reminds me that my fun fact for middle aged british people is that my dad went to secondary school with sean bean. because why not

TableTopBill13

No one delivers “Bastard!!” better…..

Osaka11

That sounds awesome "Bastardess Extraordinaire" would be a FUCKING INCREDIBLE title

Michael Stahlke8

Very well, I can see you do not find my presence congenial. Good day, sir.

Cab Davidson7

Sean Bean playing the most Yorkshire man from Essex in television history. A great show but very weird casting decision.

Georgeous McGeorgeface 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈🇪🇸🇮🇨🇳🇴6

This is a very special piece of celebration. #YorkshireDay

Linda4

I rarely quote posts but as the comments are turned off I must add: "... No dawdlin' now!" 😂 I simply must... 😊

Mᴇʟ Коваль 🇺🇦3

Happy Yorkshire day everyone 😂😆

John Ewing2

This was me, after a particularly fruitless conversation with Garmin Customer Service about a heart rate monitor that failed just after the warranty had expired.

Ms Brown-Mouse2

I played this while lying abed, the tall housemate awoke, and is now sleepily muttering “bastard” at random intervals

Helen Day

@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social

On #YorkshireDay, enjoy this lovely railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Ladybird artist Ronald Lampitt

A railway poster with its typical simplified palette and stark contrasts of light and shade presenting an aerial view into a lightly wooded valley with small village and stone church

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Mark Fortner5

This reminds me of the opening sequence of the original Miss Marple series.

Margaret Nelson 🌦4

I love railway posters with lots of big clouds, so I wish there were more in this one.

John Daly3

Immediately reminds me of this penguin edition. Same artist perhaps.

TheWickingMan2

Hints of Kettlewell and Arncliffe for me.

Stiles2

Hi Helen, do you know if this is a real scene, or a composite Dales one? Either way it's blummin' gorgeous 🥰

DJ 🌻💙🌻💙🌻1

Love it!! Reminds me of James Herriot.

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Bard Of The Revolution4

Happy Yorkshire Day to my beautiful lil county 💚

Adrian Littlejohn

@yorksfella59.bsky.social

It's officially Yorkshire Day! Greetings to all natives and citizens of God's Own County! And for any lesser mortals, here's a map, to help you get your bearings... 👍

11645d ago

Ethel Crimble3

But if it was excised from GB I could drive to Carlisle in 3 hours, not 5.😊

Larry2

Thank you! I’m Australian so the map is very helpful 😻

Mitch K2

You can allus tell a Yorkshireman. ... Mind, you can't tell him much

Ian St James1

Happy Yorkshire Day. Like Devon Day (June 4th) it’s worth celebrating, preferably with a pint of Sam Smith’s and a Yorkshire pudding served with onion gravy!

Snitkicker 🇨🇦1

Wish we could be there to celebrate, Yorkshire is one of our favourite places on earth!

Usman-Smith1

Aye lad, tha' empire o'tha rose Tha mountains o' forever Fair Yorkshire doth doze 'neath a blanket o remembered heather On't moors a cocks stride Ta' castle walls n pits Nowhere to hide If tha' flat cap fits? Tha' engine o' empire Tha' builders of today Celebrate God's shire Kneel n'pray Remember!

James Austin

@jamesdaustin.bsky.social

Happy Yorkshire Day to all those who celebrate! And commiserations to all those who arent fortunate enough to do so

9045d ago

Claire S (UK not USA)2

My OH half jokingly wanted me to give birth in Yorkshire (we lived in London) so the baby could play cricket for Yorkshire.

Treblig 🇺🇦2

Happy Yorkshire day to you too! I’m so glad that the side which most people from Yorkshire supported at the time, the Lancastrians, won the War of the Roses! 🌹

RickChasey2

Literally the first thing that came out of my wife’s mouth this morning. Can take the girl out of Yorkshire etc

GreenCorrie2

A US tourist in Westminster Abbey sees a phone & a sign saying 'Talk to God, £1000/ min'. Huh, he thinks. Next day he's in York Minster and sees another phone & a sign, this one says 'Talk to God, 10p/min'. He stops a vicar and says 'how come it's cheap'? 'You're in Yorkshire lad. It's a local call'

KS_19681

My Yorkshire born daughter's birthday. Her Yorkshire born & bred dad was delighted when she was born on Yorkshire Day.

Stuart Hemingway1

My Yorkshire rose always opens for show on the 1st August no matter what these climate deniers are doing to the planet…

Brian Groom

@groomb.bsky.social

Appropriately for Yorkshire Day, Joseph Priestley of Birstall, West Riding, is credited with discovering oxygen on this day 1774, building on earlier work by Antoine Lavoisier and Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

6645d ago

Julian Le Vay2

Certain if he hadn't discovered oxygen we'd all be feeling very unwell

Ian Myers2

To be clear... discover /dĭ-skŭv′ər/ transitive verb To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.

Dave Piper2

What on EARTH did folk breathe BEFORE he discovered it?!? We should be told!

Funky Rabbit1

He effectively invented fizzy drinks as well

isogsargent.bsky.social1

Before then we couldn't breathe.

Iago from Shakespeare's Othello1

A man who breathes another's fire calls it his own discovery; the credit goes to the last hand on the bellows.

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Shane McKee5

And nowadays literally *everyone* is breathing the stuff. Amazing.

Cody Coyne (he/him)2

And a #Unitarian to boot!

TheParisAngel

@theparisangel.bsky.social

I'm going to celebrate Yorkshire Day in the traditional fashion, by pointing at items for sale, requesting their price and loudly exclaiming, "OW MUCH". Then punching my wife and playing a forward defensive shot.

7045d ago

Vocnorth4

I'd pay good money to have seen Boycott in The Hundred. Dedending a good 9 not out from 100 balls..

Yakhunt4

"Good Morning, Sir" "I'M FROM YORKSHIRE, I AM!"

Ken Twix2

It’s like this is it

Torreblue1

Don't forget the 'finger clicking'...

History and Heritage Yorkshire

@handhyorkshire.bsky.social

I missed this the other day. The remains of what is believed to be a Roman port have been dug up on land behind a woman's home. Archaeologists said they had found evidence of 12 buildings beneath a paddock close to the Humber estuary, in Brough, East Yorkshire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

5845d ago

RJ Barker

@rjbarker.bsky.social

Got to be honest, #YorkshireDay has always seemed a bit cruel to me. A whole day of reminding people they don't live here. Just feels a little mean.

5045d ago

Iain Clark3

They brought it on themselves by not being born in Yorkshire.

@gavreads2

It is now I know that York has the biggest independent bookshop in the U.K.

Rick Danforth2

It's the annual reminder for them that they should consider moving 🙌

Claire Waller / Ellie Graves/ Claire Lunn1

Y’see, my Grandad’s from Sheffield (and one of my GGG Uncles was Herbert Lunn, if you know your Yorkshire History…), so I do have Yorkshire in my blood… but I’m also a fierce Pompey Lil - I went to Bakewell to see my Great Auntie Pat a couple of weeks ago and literally *baked*. I need sea air!

John Bull

@garius.bsky.social

Yorkshire Day? Just a less impressive version of Lancashire Day.

4745d ago

deechief.bsky.social4

Reported, blocked, podcast unsubscribed, rspca inform about cat neglect (we've seen the pleading faces 😁) Or not 😂

Mike3

Good to see perspective here Feel sorry for those folk born the wrong side of the hills, ie the eastern side

Fulcrum Film Club2

Ha that almost triggered me and I’m obviously a southern townie (that loves Yorkshire)

Tanya~1

A rose by any other name smells just as sweet.

Caroline Hooton1

RIP your mentions … 😂

Antiquity Journal

@antiquity.ac.uk

Comprising ~950 metal artefacts, buried in North Yorkshire shortly before the Roman conquest, the Melsonby Hoards are one of Britain's largest #IronAge metalwork deposits #YorkshireDay Learn how they reveal northern Britain's wealth and connections 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Two archaeologists excavating in a trench filled with iron objects.

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Paul Bassett Davies

@thewritertype.bsky.social

The guidelines for puns about Yorkshire are decided at a big summat meeting. #YorkshireDay

4245d ago

Cris

@ristophe.bsky.social

Happy Yorkshire Day! Ill wait on the step for my bouquets of white roses. You lot better be doing something Yorkshire related today, else ill be round wi my whippet.

5245d ago

Andy3

What's on the list of approved activities?

Steeble2

I’ve scheduled in an hour of “ooof ow much”’ing and I’ll also be having some toad in the hole later #yorkshiredeepinmysoul

Mal2

Morning. Happy Yorkshire Day. I’ll get me puddings out.

Richard2

Happy Yorkshire Day! Any excuse to have a Yorkie Bar… 😁 In fact - going to watch The Odyssey again today - may have more than one Cris! Rock ‘N’ Roll!!

Daniel2

Happy Yorkshire Day, Cris. As a Kentish Man, from the garden of England, from the oldest county with the oldest ale brewery, I’ll keep quiet today.

Andy Duchess1

Morning we’re singing ‘On Ilkley Moor bah ‘tat’ all day. Will that do?

Allan T Adams

@allantadams.bsky.social

Happy Yorkshire Day (part 2). After all, Yorkshire is a big place with a lot to offer so here are some more landmarks I have drawn including the Brontë Parsonage, Fountains Abbey, Bootham Bar with the Minster & the Roman column in York. #ArchitecturalIllustration #drawing #pencil #ArtShare

Pencil drawing of a large house seen through a number of mature trees and gravestones in a churchyard. Brontë Parsonage, Haworth, West Yorkshire.

3345d ago

YorkFurs

@yorkfurs.co.uk

EY UP LAD IT'S #YorkshireDay And we wouldn't be reet neighbourly like if we weren't giving a shout out to our friends at @yorkshirefurs.org.uk, who're running their summer party in just THREE WEEKS' TIME at Federation of Sport in Hull - get your tickets at www.yorkshirefurs.org.uk