South Riding

South Riding has several meanings:

  • South Riding (novel), a book from 1936 by Winifred Holtby, featuring a fictional South Riding of Yorkshire
  • South Riding (film), a film from 1938 based on the novel
  • South Riding (1974 TV series), a thirteen part ITV TV series from 1974 based on the novel
  • South Riding (2011 miniseries), a three part BBC TV miniseries from 2011 based on the novel
  • Tipperary South Riding, now called the South Tipperary, Republic of Ireland
  • The former South Riding of Lindsey in Lincolnshire, England
  • South Riding, Virginia, United States
  • South Riding, a bus company in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England in the early 1990s; bought by Yorkshire Traction

Famous quotes containing the words south and/or riding:

    “These South savannahs may yet prove battle-fields.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Deep with the first dead lies London’s daughter,
    Robed in the long friends,
    The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother,
    Secret by the unmourning water
    Of the riding Thames.
    After the first death, there is no other.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)