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:

    “During Prohibition days, when South Carolina was actively advertising the iodine content of its vegetables, the Hell Hole brand of ‘liquid corn’ was notorious with its waggish slogan: ‘Not a Goiter in a Gallon.’”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.”
    —Laura Riding (1901–1991)