if it makes you feel any better...
There's no such thing as East Yorkshire. It's east riding and nothing more.
Mainly because that would mean having Hell Hull as part of God's own and no-one wants that.
Now the question of if your Northern or not is matter of knowledge over such things as a ginnel, a snicket and the whole words to 'on Ilkley moor by'tat'
Biting the hand that feeds IT
