Yorkshire on Thursday 5 February 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 5 February 1643: Rioting locals reïnundate Hatfield Chase in protest at flooding and a loss of fishing and fowling caused by Netherlandish colonists and Cornelius Vermuyden’s land reclamation scheme
- 5 February 1649: The Puritan John Sharp of Bradford, on military service at Hull, writes passionately to his “cousin” at York
- 5 February 1691: Approaching 60, Oliver Heywood contemplates his place in the cosmos
- 5 February 1730: News that Cyril Arthington of Arthington Hall has drunk himself to death on the birth of his son and heir
- 5 February 1852: A local poet recounts the fate of some of his 81 neighbours drowned this morning in Holmfirth Flood through the miserliness of the mill-owners
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:37-16:52, zenith 12:15
- Moon: set 08:45 rise 21:45, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:42-16:57, zenith 12:20
- Moon: set 08:50 rise 21:50, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:44-16:53, zenith 12:18
- Moon: set 08:49 rise 21:49, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:41-16:58, zenith 12:19
- Moon: set 08:50 rise 21:49, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:41-16:54, zenith 12:18
- Moon: set 08:48 rise 21:48, waning gibbous
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