Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Sunday 7 December 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:01-15:43, zenith 11:52
  • Moon: set 11:11 rise 18:08, waning gibbous

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:07-15:48, zenith 11:57
  • Moon: set 11:16 rise 18:13, waning gibbous

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:10-15:42, zenith 11:56
  • Moon: set 11:21 rise 18:06, waning gibbous

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:04-15:50, zenith 11:57
  • Moon: set 11:13 rise 18:16, waning gibbous

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:06-15:45, zenith 11:55
  • Moon: set 11:16 rise 18:10, waning gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

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