10:01am Tuesday 9th February 2010
By Reader's letter
Readers may not be aware that (although I thought this an April fool prank, except it’s February) some here-today, gone-tomorrow upstart from whichever quango controls our Yorkshire Dales National Park is proposing to drop the word Yorkshire from the title.
This would then be removed from maps and signage.
The reason for this effrontery is the addition of a small part of Lancashire and Cumbria to the western edge of the national park. As delighted as the Lancastrians and Cumbrians must be to at last be annexed into Yorkshire, it is intolerable to allow this wanton destruction of our local identity. This region is known throughout the world as the Yorkshire Dales. It is obvious that whoever came up with this idea is probably from south of Watford.
The “Western Dales” may be appropriate for the new area, but hands off “Yorkshire”. I urge all those who are concerned at this outrage to bombard their local and national politicians in protest and put a stop to this nonsense.
Charles Urquhart, Millfield Road, York.
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