Those of us in the North, the proper North, not Manchester, can rightly claim to live among the most diverse counties of England, in every meaning of the word. The sport those counties contain within their boundaries is varied, from hunting and angling to grouse, partridge and pheasant shooting, and the best wildfowling you could find.
You will be hard-pressed to find a Yorkshire resident who would not subscribe to the adage that it is the greatest county in England, and for good reason too. It is the largest by some distance and it stretches from the great Humber coast to over 2,000ft at the head of Swaledale, and the water from those high hills and grouse moors feed the rivers that end up in the Humber. Indeed, all three counties we will look at can claim to have one of the greatest river
