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:

    “Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth ... but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.”
    —Laura Riding (1901–1991)