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When I was a kid growing up in Morley, unlike Leeds, the Police, Fire, Ambulance and Education were run by the West Riding County Council, the words "West Riding" were ubiquitous. But no longer. The only place I see the name these days is on signs around Clitheroe and Saddleworth, which say "Historical West Riding."I've been to Brid for the weekend, and "East Riding County Council" is everywhere. When they became Humberside there were questions as to whether it was still Yorkshire, but now they are the only area to hang on to a centuries old tradition.

I think East Riding Council exists and therefore the signage will be very visible where as the other Riding Authorities were abolished or merged. It's good to see the name on signs saying riding. There was also big opposition to using Humberside as an identity and people will have demanded that the link to Yorks was not going to disappear.

Grrr... Don't get me started. The Ridings still exist. They never went away. Why, because the boundaries were never beaten. I know it gripes those lot is Sheffield but they're in the West Riding. Humberside was a joke. Grimsby is 60 miles from Kingston-Upon-Hull via the bridge. It's in Lincolnshire. It was all a gerrymandering exercise by the Tories to win an election in 1973/4. The administrative lot may change but the counties can only be altered by beating the boundaries for years!Royal Mail thought it'd be clever and use the post codes and names.

Seeing this reminded me that one of the Irish Counties was split into Ridings but I could never remember which one.A quick Google turned up this....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_(co ... bdivision)

liits wrote: Seeing this reminded me that one of the Irish Counties was split into Ridings but I could never remember which one.A quick Google turned up this....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_(co ... bdivision) As the Vikings also "colonised" parts of Ireland I would suggest this Wiki entry for Riding is more likely and is the one I am more familar with. If we follow your link then this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_(co ... bdivision) is the one step away saying that Tipperary, Galway and Cork all had Ridings although typically Irish none were "thirds"

Riding, from the Danish word Thridding, a third part hence North, East and West Ridings. Just a bit of trivia, which I have no doubt most of you already knew.

Thanks Tyke Boy, that was the link I thought I'd posted.

Sorry Liits yes its the link you and I attempted to post but it looks like the URL is afflicted by a similar issue as the one posting flickr accounts on here only this time its the _ (underscore) as opposed to the @ (at) which breaks it.    It looks like peopl will need to copy and paste the URL below or alternatively just follow the subdivision link on the page that appearshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_(co ... bdivision)