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South Yorkshire

noun

  1. a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1,561 sq. km).


South Yorkshire

noun

  1. a metropolitan county of N England, administered since 1986 by the unitary authorities of Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Rotherham. Area: 1560 sq km (602 sq miles)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Barnsley, a city of 91,000 in South Yorkshire between Leeds and Sheffield, is neither Oklahoma nor Orlando.

John Robert Cocker was born on May 20, 1944, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Meanwhile, in South Yorkshire, anti-Thatcher activists burned an effigy of the controversial leader.

In 1989, dozens of soccer fans were crushed to death due to overcrowding in a South Yorkshire stadium.

We well remember how one of the most disastrous moorland fires in South Yorkshire was attributed to these gypsies.

On the South Yorkshire moors the Kestrel is, we are glad to say, still a fairly common bird.

One bird, however, that frequents the gardens of the northern shires is specially interesting to South Yorkshire naturalists.

There are few signs among the birds here in South Yorkshire to indicate any change of seasons.

The Kestrel is now very rarely seen about the South Yorkshire woods and fields.

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