North Riding

[ rahy-ding ]

noun

1. a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in N England, now part of North Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.

North Riding

noun

1. (until 1974) an administrative division of Yorkshire, now constituting most of North Yorkshire

Example Sentences

The head of the firm pointed to a map of the North Riding hanging above the fireplace.

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Cleveland, a hilly district in the North Riding of Yorkshire, rich in iron-stone.

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Of such land as this the North Riding contains four hundred thousand acres.

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Scargate Hall stands, high and old, in the wildest and most rugged part of the wild and rough North Riding.

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No man in the North Riding was more pleased than John that day.

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