Yorkshire on Wednesday 2 July 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 2 July 1644: Henry Slingsby of the Royalist York garrison recounts Prince Rupert’s defeat at Marston Moor today, which ends Charles I’s hopes in the north
- 2 July 1829: An elderly postman and a one-legged Waterloo veteran set out in ironed clogs to walk from Hebden Bridge to Heptonstall during a thunderstorm
- 2 July 1916: Sam Cooper of Sheffield and the 7th East Yorkshire Regiment takes a branch from Fricourt Wood on the second day of the Battle of the Somme
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:34-21:36, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 00:15 rise 13:08, first quarter
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:38-21:42, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 00:20 rise 13:13, first quarter
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:32-21:45, zenith 13:09
- Moon: set 00:18 rise 13:12, first quarter
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:40-21:39, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 00:20 rise 13:12, first quarter
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:35-21:41, zenith 13:08
- Moon: set 00:18 rise 13:11, first quarter
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