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About East Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, often abbreviated to the East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to the south-west, and Lincolnshire to the south across the Humber Estuary. The city of Kingston upon Hull is the largest settlement.

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My dad once held the world distance record for leapfrogging, two-person team. They managed nearly 17 miles from Hull to Wibnsey, East Yorkshire. Set in the early 80s, I think they were probably drunk.

from No Such Thing As The Ancient Monty Python Dynasty, 2018-11-09 at 00:53:12 ยท read transcript

Other times East Yorkshire came up

  1. The competitions are often known as swing fests. Yeah. Don't get them mistaken with the South London Swing Fest, which is a celebration of swing music. The Sussex Swing Fest, which is a golf competition. Or Swing Fest, a swing-only festival from East Yorkshire. Is that swinging, swinging? That's right. Don't get mixed up with any of those if you want to go for your homoerotic Swiss wrestling competition.

    533: No Such Thing As The Farto Phone, 2024-05-30 ยท listen

  2. You're sort of crotch on crotch quite a lot of the time and then eventually one of you flips the other onto the ground and you've won the bout. Amazing. The competitions are often known as swing Fests. Yeah. Don't get them mistaken with the South London Swingfest, which is a celebration of swing music, the Sussex Swingfest, which is a golf competition, or Swingfest, a Swinger-Omi festival from East Yorkshire. Is that swinging, swinging? Yeah. That's right.

    No Such Thing As The Farto Phone, 2024-05-30 ยท listen

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