The East Riding Of Yorkshire

Crest courtesy of Mr Michael Bradford, Chair of the Association of British Counties, and taken from his book, "The Fight for Yorkshire"

Yorkshire can be traced back to AD 866 when it was being formed by the Norse Vikings, apart from the 22 years in the wilderness, it has always been know as Yorkshire for 1120 years yet some imbeciles still refer to parts of it as North Humberside.

Since 1st April 1996 the County name East Riding of Yorkshire was finally and rightly reinstated and replaced the name of the side of the river Humber yet many years on and there is still a vast number of ill informed people mainly from TV and the Press that still do not refer to the county by its correct name, remaining in the time warp of 1st April 1974 to 1st April 1996.

Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England but still many idiots refer to it as Yorkshire and Humberside.

The names of the organisations still using the wrong county name will be names and shamed here.

Company / Organisation	Company / Organisation	Company / Organisation
Comet Now gone but based in Hull	Halford's	Curry's
The Sun	BBC	The Mirror
Sky Sports commentators	ITV Sports commentators	The Daily Mail
British Gas	MBNA	Barclay Card
Royal Mail	Sunday Mirror	Nectar

If you know of a Company or Organisation that is still using Humberside as the County name please click on the link below and supply the details and I will add them to the list of shame. (Please note any abusive emails will be reported to your ISP)

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The East Riding originated in antiquity.

The word riding is descended from late Old English *þriðing or *þriding (recorded only in Latin contexts or forms, e.g., trehing, treding, trithing, with Latin initial t here representing the Old English letter thorn). It came into Old English as a loanword from Old Norse þriðjungr, meaning a third part (especially of a county),

Ridings are originally Scandinavian institutions.

In Iceland the third part of a thing which corresponded roughly to an English county was called þrithjungr.

Since Viking rule, Yorkshire has had three ridings, North, West, and East, originally each subdivided into wapentakes.

A wapentake is a term derived from the Old Norse vápnatak, the rough equivalent of an Anglo-Saxon hundred. The word denotes an administrative meeting place, typically a crossroads or a ford in a river. The origin of the word is not known. Folk etymology has it that voting would be denoted or conducted by the show of weapons, an idea perhaps suggested by references in The Germania of Tacitus or current practice in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden. According to other authorities weapons were not flourished at a Norse þing and "weapon taking" or vopnatak was the end of an assembly, when one was allowed to take weapons up again, providing another possible origin of the wapentake.

The Danelaw counties of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire were divided into wapentakes, just as most of the remainder of England was divided into hundreds.

In Yorkshire, a Norse wapentake usually replaced several Anglo-Saxon hundreds. This process was complete by 1086 in the North and West Ridings, but continued in the East Riding until the mid 12th century.

refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/