Yorkshire on Sunday 12 October 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 12 October 0633: Edwin of Northumbria is killed and his army defeated by Gwynedd and Mercia at Hatfield Chase near Doncaster
- 12 October 0709: St Wilfrid of York’s soul departs with the birds to the sound of Psalm 104 at Oundle (Northants)
- 12 October 1659: With political turmoil elsewhere, gunfire celebrating the ceremonial demarcation of Hull’s bounds is heard as “a strange and very wonderful thing”
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:22-18:13, zenith 12:47
- Moon: set 15:04 rise 21:05, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:27-18:18, zenith 12:52
- Moon: set 15:09 rise 21:10, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:26-18:15, zenith 12:51
- Moon: set 15:16 rise 21:01, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:26-18:18, zenith 12:52
- Moon: set 15:05 rise 21:13, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:25-18:16, zenith 12:50
- Moon: set 15:09 rise 21:06, waning gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Edwin of Northumbria – tramps, kings, parents of large families ✝ Wilfrid of Northumbria – successful advocate for the Roman Easter date at the Synod of Whitby
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