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 | | Yorkshire, former administrative county, north-eastern England, historically the largest county of England, bordered on the north by County Durham, on the north-east by the North Sea, on the south by Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire, on the west by Lancashire, and on the north-west by the former county of Westmorland. |
 | | Yorkshire was divided, for administrative purposes, into the East, West, and North Ridings, which had as their administrative centres Beverley, leeds, bradford, wakefield, sheffield Wakefield, and Northallerton, respectively. |
 | | Under the local government reforms of 1974, Yorkshire was partitioned to form the counties of North Yorkshire and Humberside, and two metropolitan counties, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. |
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