Centre of the Old Yorkshire Ridings

• The East Riding, the smallest and least hilly of the three, much of it in the plains extending from the north bank of the Humber and containing the seaport city 
• The North Riding, extending from the Pennines to the North Sea, the most rural but still containing Middlesbrough on industrial Teesside;
• The West Riding, the largest and most urbanised as its southern parts contain the great industrial cities of Yorkshire, the largest being Leeds and Sheffield though in its north it encompasses some of the finest of the Yorkshire Dales.
• All the riding met in York, the Capitol of the North of England from 875 till 1974 when they became Boroughs or City’s.

Area centre of these Old Ridings was then Barkston’s ASH TREE.

Our Logo of a Rose is significant as the White Rose of Yorkshire.

At Towton (1.5 miles away) the bloodiest battle on English soil was fought between The Houses of York and Lancashire in the war of the Roses