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Yorkshire's Hidden Gems: The Place That Captured My Heart
Andrew Eisen, Professor Emeritus, Neurology

When people travel to the UK, they usually mean London and possibly Edinburgh. But few if any visit England’s largest county Yorkshire. At the time of King Edward 1 (1298) York, the capital of Yorkshire was also the capital of Britain. After escaping the Holocaust (I was born in Berlin), I grew up in Harrogate, Yorkshire and went to school there and later Medical School at the University of Leeds. Many people equate Yorkshire with its large industrial cities (Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Wakefield and Huddersfield) which during the days of textile empires and coal mines belched smoke day and night. Fortunately, this has all but gone. Within a few miles of these cities is found great beauty in the dales, the moors, the hamlets and villages housing history going back to 1200 or earlier. Amongst these are the great Abbeys of Yorkshire. Growing up I cycled many hundreds of miles through the Yorkshire countryside discovering its gems – the land of “All creatures great and small”, the birthplace of David Hockney, the site of the “Great Yorkshire Show” and the inspiration for Alan Bennett born in Leeds.

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