The Yorkshire Journal

Welcome to The Yorkshire Journal online

The Yorkshire Journal is dedicated to Yorkshire, England’s largest county. It is free, online and published quarterly, four times a year in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, for everyone who loves the unique characteristics of Yorkshire. Wherever you live The Yorkshire Journal will help you discover more about this fascinating county. Articles in the journal focus on all aspects of Yorkshire’s heritage past and present, which includes features on its stunning landscape, picturesque villages, historic towns and cities, customs, traditions, curiosities and the history of its people. The journal is beautifully illustrated with a magnificent range of photographs, paintings and line drawings.

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Andrew Simpson

The Yorkshire Journal

The Yorkshire Journal

Welcome to the Spring issue 2012 of The Yorkshire Journal, which, as usual, contains more fascinating articles.

The Yorkshire Journal has become very popular, read by thousands of people throughout Britain and overseas. This is because it is a free online journal that does not contain any pages of advertising and can be downloaded wherever you are in the world. Also for readers who need large print the journal can be easily enlarged in pdf by increasing the magnification button +.

In this Winter issue:-
The refreshing sight of the daffodils growing on the sloping banks that run down from the medieval city walls of York assure us that at last the cold winter is over and spring has well and truly sprung. The poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth is a tribute to the daffodils, which in spring are always in full flower.
Other articles include a delightful walk along the Flamborough South Landing Sculpture Trail with Susan Horton. She points out the Sculptures, which have different tales to tell. They were inspired by stories told by long-time residents of Flamborough about the heritage of the village and the area.

Next we visit Harrogate where Colin Allan looks back at the concerts Sir Edward Elgar once gave at the renamed Royal Hall and his regular walk between the Hotel Majestic and Bog Field. This path in the beautiful Valley Gardens was named after Elgar, to commemorate his many visits.

Julian Giles looks at the “misericords” inside the Priory Church, Old Malton and explains what misericords are and illustrates the most interesting ones. He also outlines the history of the present church which is all that remains of the Priory of the Gilbertine Order.

Then we go to Scarborough where Sarah Harrison finds out why “Taking the Water” quickly became Scarborough’s accepted medicine and discovers that the first bathing machine was introduced there!

Jean Griffiths revisits Jervaulx Abbey in Wensleydale, which is a beautiful, atmospheric Abbey, that is privately owned. Jean explains how and why Jervaulx Abbey is very different from other ruined Yorkshire Abbey’s.

Once again Yorkshire has been favoured by the mysterious crop circles phenomenon. Marcus Grant visits the three crop circles that materialised to take a closer look at them for us.

We hope you enjoy these contributions.