Spurn Point is the southeastern tip of this county's Holderness peninsula, which once contained the medieval borough of Ravenser, now lost to coastal erosion.
Spurn Point is the southeastern tip of this county's Holderness peninsula, which once contained the medieval borough of Ravenser, now lost to coastal erosion.Â  The site of John Vanbrugh's Castle Howard, it was also the object of a parliamentary struggle between John Savile and Thomas Wentworth. The Viking Kingdom of Jorvik roughly corresponded to this entity, and before that, it was home to the Brigantes. Until the 1974 reorganization of local government, it was divided into three ► ridings, North, East, and West, the last of which contained most of its textile industry around Bradford. The Pennines formed the western boundary of, for 10 points, what historic county of northern England, whose largest city is Leeds, and is symbolized by a white rose? 
Spurn Point is the southeastern tip of this county's Holderness peninsula, which once contained the medieval borough of Ravenser, now lost to coastal erosion.
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