Yorkshire on Sunday 25 May 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 25 May 1728: King Jessop, the fighting rector of Treeton (Rotherham), is buried at Sheffield, and remembered for his punch and his parody
- 25 May 1870: An Ascension Eve performance for tourists of the Whitby Penny Hedge ritual
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:42-21:14, zenith 12:58
- Moon: rise 03:24 set 19:35, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:46-21:19, zenith 13:03
- Moon: rise 03:29 set 19:41, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:41-21:22, zenith 13:01
- Moon: rise 03:25 set 19:43, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:48-21:16, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 03:30 set 19:38, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:44-21:18, zenith 13:01
- Moon: rise 03:26 set 19:39, waning crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Rogation Sunday – God is asked to bless crops and farmers, and the Headingley Gallimaufrians and others beat their parish bounds ✝ Urban – appears in The Canterbury Tales, day for some is the start of summer
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