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Yorkshire is an historic count of England, centred on the county town of york. Yorkshire was subject to the punitive harrying of the north, Yorkshire was not a homogeneous natural or topographical area and the contrasting conditions and natural resources led to differences in the way that the different areas of the county developed over time
The region is drained by several rivers, in western and central Yorkshire the many rivers empty their waters into the river ouse which reaches the north sea via the Humber Estuary.
The Nineteenth Century was a time of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in Yorkshire. Yorkshire was already a centre of industry in textiles, concentrated in the west riding, Steel, continued to be concentrated around Sheffield, and the production of coal also. The worsted sector of the textile industry was the first to adapt the machinery developed by the Lancashire cotton industry and had become completely factory based by the 1860s including large horizontally integrated mills.
