Yorkshire on Saturday 11 July 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 11 July 1787: Advertisement for The Commercial and Mathematical Academy, Hull
- 11 July 1829: A Leeds Mercury subscriber asks why Christians do not seek to refute the claims of the Rev. Robert Taylor and Richard Carlile’s “infidel home missionary tour”
- 11 July 1844: The botanist James Backhouse Jnr. and colleagues walk from Settle over Malham Cove, Gordale Scar and Arncliffe Clowder to Arncliffe
- 11 July 1858: In Whitby, Walter White buys a religious ballad printed at Otley and called ‘The railway to heaven’
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:42-21:30, zenith 13:06
- Moon: rise 00:56 set 19:20, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:47-21:35, zenith 13:11
- Moon: rise 01:00 set 19:25, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:41-21:39, zenith 13:10
- Moon: rise 00:53 set 19:31, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:49-21:33, zenith 13:11
- Moon: rise 01:03 set 19:21, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:44-21:35, zenith 13:09
- Moon: rise 00:57 set 19:25, waning crescent
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