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:

    “While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “They’ll stone you when you’re riding in your car.
    They’ll stone you when you’re playing your guitar.
    Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,
    Everybody must get stoned.”
    —Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)