Yorkshire Facts
Highest Mountain: Mickle Fell – 2591ft
Longest River: River Aire – 88 miles
Longest single-word place-name: Sutton-uner-Whitestonecliffe – 27 letters
Oldest school (in England): St Peter’s, York – AD627
Famous Yorkshire inventions and discoveries:
Catseyes: Percy Shaw
The Lock, Hydraulic Press and Beer Pump: Joseph Bramah
The Glider: Sir George Cayley
The properties of Oxygen: Joseph Priestley
The Mechanical Wool Comb: Samuel Cunliffe-Lister
Stainless Steel: Harry Brearley
The Steam Locomotive: Matthew Murray
Famous Yorkshire Folk:
Guy Fawkes, conspirator: 1570-1606
Dick Turpin, highwayman: 1706-1739
Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker: 1718-1779
Captain James Cook, navigator and explorer: 1728-1779
William Wilberforce, anti-slavery reformer: 1759-1833
Frederick Delius, composer: 1862-1934