East Riding of Yorkshire
Unitary authority in northern England created in 1996 from part of
the former county of Humberside
Area:
2,416 sq km/933 sq mi
Towns and Cities:
Beverley (administrative headquarters), Driffield, Goole, Hornsea,
Bridlington
Features:
Humber Estuary to south of authority; North Sea to east; Flamborough
Head chalk cliffs; Spurn Head - dynamic spit at mouth of estuary;
River Hull; River Ouse; Holderness Peninsula; The Wolds; Hornsea
Mere; Beverley Minster (13th century); All Saints Tower (34 m/110
ft) at Driffield; Sledmere House - 18th century mansion with grounds
laid out by Capability Brown ; Rudstone has Britain's tallest
standing stone (8 m/25 ft); Sewerby Hall (Bridlington) -Georgian
mansion including museum dedicated to the aviator Amy Johnson
(1903-1941); Hornsea Pottery; Withernsea Lighthouse (39 m/127
ft) including museum.
Industries:
Chemicals, pottery, agriculture, agricultural machinery and services,
passenger vehicle components, bakery products
Population:
(1996) 310,000.
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