West Riding

[ rahy-ding ]

noun

1. a former administrative division of Yorkshire, England.

West Riding

noun

1. (until 1974) an administrative division of Yorkshire, now part of West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Cumbria, and Lancashire

Example Sentences

In the West Riding the amount allowed per aged person ranged from 1s.

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The towns of the West Riding of Yorkshire, as already stated, became her p. 578successful rivals in worsted fabrics.

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But he was highly esteemed in the West Riding, and in 1861 he was returned unopposed for Bradford.

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The whole of the West Riding was lost, and the commanders forced to take refuge in Hull.

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A West Riding paper states that a postman picked up a pound Treasury note last week.

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