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East Riding of Yorkshire

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  • proper noun A local government district in the north east of England.
  • proper noun A historic division of the county of Yorkshire.

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Examples

  • Thus Hull was and is in the East Riding of Yorkshire though it is not part of the unitary authority another reform which is also known as the East Riding of Yorkshire, since the city was made a unitary authority in its own right.

    auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2006

  • David HockneyBridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire• David Cameron became Tory leader under the alternative vote system; with first past the post, David Davis would have won.

    Letters: Happiness is a cigar… 2011

  • Joan PurkissBeverley, East Riding of Yorkshire• Reading about David Miliband's "rare intervention into frontline British politics", it struck me that here is an example his younger brother could perhaps follow Report, 28 February.

    Letters: Without a prayer 2011

  • Dr Ashok Pathak, for serv medicine in the East Riding of Yorkshire and in India.

    New Year honours list: Order of the British Empire, Member (MBE) 2010

  • Marvell was born in Winestead-in-Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, near the city of Kingston upon Hull.

    Archive 2009-11-29 Toby O'B 2009

  • Marvell was born in Winestead-in-Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, near the city of Kingston upon Hull.

    AS SEEN ON TV: ANDREW MARVELL Toby O'B 2009

  • But it then acknowledged that they would be able to "play up" some gains, including wins in the east Midlands, gains of some councils including the East Riding of Yorkshire and Barrow-in-Furness, and becoming the largest party in Birmingham and Bradford.

    Labour reins in Ministers Valleys Mam 2007

  • The Tories gained South Ribble, East Riding of Yorkshire and Chester and now control 20 councils in the North.

    Why David Cameron is Confident This Morning... 2007

  • But it then acknowledged that they would be able to "play up" some gains, including wins in the east Midlands, gains of some councils including the East Riding of Yorkshire and Barrow-in-Furness, and becoming the largest party in Birmingham and Bradford.

    Archive 2007-04-29 Valleys Mam 2007

  • Six months later my grandmother was living in the village of Swine in the East Riding of Yorkshire with John Skinner, Immigration Officer, as his wife, and Ivor Finster was training to be a cabinetmaker in Crumpsall Park.

    Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

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