Yorkshire on Wednesday 5 August 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 5 August 1605: Debauched and ruined, Walter Calverley is crushed to death today at York for the murder of two sons at Calverley Hall (Bradford), but is revived by 1830s schoolboy ghost-raisers as the Rev. Samuel Redhead (age ca. 55)
- 5 August 1661: John Ray is told that a knocked-through lighting niche in the Anglo-Saxon crypt under Ripon minster is a chastity test device
- 5 August 1661: John Ray visits Copgrove (Harrogate), the pauper’s spa
- 5 August 1685: John Thompson, an ex-excommunicant, is abandoned in Leeds parish churchyard
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:20-20:53, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 13:57 rise 22:34, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:25-20:58, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 14:02 rise 22:39, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:21-21:00, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 14:04 rise 22:34, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:26-20:56, zenith 13:11
- Moon: set 14:00 rise 22:40, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:23-20:57, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 14:01 rise 22:36, waning gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- Religion: Oswald of Northumbria – died fighting pagan Midlanders, his severed arm in the claws of a raven gave eternal life to a tree.
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