The Yorkshire Ridings Society is a group affiliated to the Association of British Counties calling for the wider recognition of the historic borders of Yorkshire, and its traditional subdivisions, the North, East and West Ridings.
Famous quotes containing the words ridings and/or society:
“Time, in a folly’s rider, like a county man
Over the vault of ridings with his hound at heel,
Drives forth my men, my children from the hanging south.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“...I cannot conceive a more odious society than one where nothing is considered indecent or impious.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)