Yorkshire on Sunday 1 March 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 1 March 1857: Job Senior, the Wharfedale Hermit and a pioneering polyphonic overtone singer, dies at Burley in Wharfedale
- 1 March 1888: John Strange Winter, a military novelist from York, presents her husband with twins, to general amazement
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:47-17:40, zenith 12:13
- Moon: set 06:21 rise 15:07, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:52-17:44, zenith 12:18
- Moon: set 06:26 rise 15:12, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:51-17:42, zenith 12:17
- Moon: set 06:29 rise 15:08, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:51-17:45, zenith 12:18
- Moon: set 06:24 rise 15:14, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:50-17:42, zenith 12:16
- Moon: set 06:25 rise 15:10, waxing gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- Religion: David – patron of Wales, poets, leeks. Customs: Meteorological spring.
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