Yorkshire on Sunday 20 September 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 20 September 1319: During the Anglo-Scottish wars, seasoned raiders encounter an improvised Yorkshire home guard of clergy, peasants and officials at Myton-on-Swale
- 20 September 1598: Tenterhooks are prohibited north of the Trent to arrest a decline in the quality and reputation of woollen cloth
- 20 September 1635: Angry villagers bear William Hodshon on a pole into Sunday service at Appleton Wiske (Northallerton), assisted by a bagpiper and a churchwarden
- 20 September 1726: Dodworth (Barnsley) gets its first window glass
- 20 September 1819: Flags and fasces at a procession from Briggate to Hunslet Moor to protest the Peterloo Massacre
- 20 September 1853: Ballad composed for the inauguration this day of Titus Salt’s palace for the manufacture of woollen fabrics
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:42-19:07, zenith 12:54
- Moon: rise 17:07 set 23:55, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:46-19:12, zenith 12:59
- Moon: rise 17:12 set 23:59, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:45-19:11, zenith 12:58
- Moon: rise 17:17 set 23:52, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:46-19:11, zenith 12:59
- Moon: rise 17:09, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:44-19:10, zenith 12:57
- Moon: rise 17:12 set 23:56, waxing gibbous
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