Yorkshire on Sunday 20 December 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 20 December 1697: Disastrous flooding in the lower Don, caused by the failure of the colonist Cornelius Vermuyden’s land reclamation scheme to cope with snow-melt
- 20 December 1868: The Leeds authorities try to make Eliza Thurkill calmly admit she is dying so that, under English law, her hearsay statement may later hang her abortionist
- 20 December 1966: Greek-Cypriot cook and artist Stass Paraskos appears before Leeds magistrates charged with obscenity under the Vagrancy Act 1838
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:13-15:43, zenith 11:58
- Moon: set 03:48 rise 12:33, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:19-15:48, zenith 12:03
- Moon: set 03:54 rise 12:37, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:22-15:42, zenith 12:02
- Moon: set 03:56 rise 12:32, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:16-15:50, zenith 12:03
- Moon: set 03:52 rise 12:39, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:18-15:45, zenith 12:01
- Moon: set 03:53 rise 12:35, waxing gibbous
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