"Yorkshire, maritime county of England; bounded N. by Durham and
the Tees, NE. and E. by the North Sea, S. by the Humber and Lincolnshire,
Notts, and Derbyshire, SW. by Cheshire, W. by Lancashire, and N.W. by Westmorland;
length, E. and W., 96 miles; breadth, 80 miles; area, 3,882,851 acres, population
2,886,564. Yorkshire is the first county of England in point of size, and
the third in point of population. "
from Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887
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