Yorkshire: The North Riding
By Jane Grenville and Nikolaus Pevsner
Yale University Press £45
‘The North Riding of Yorkshire was abolished on April Fools’ Day 1974’ is the emphatic opening to this revised edition of the original 1966 Pevsner volume.
But the fools who redrew England’s administrative map half a century ago count for naught in Pevsner-land, where the ancient northern division of God’s Own County still runs, in the present tense, from the Derwent to the Tees.
And what
