For the Yorkshire Dales to acquire some real class and distinction (Lancashire loses turf to Yorkshire for Dales expansion, 2 August) it has clearly been necessary for the national park to encompass some of Lancashire’s treasured acres. Although the park now embraces the high moors of Leck Fell, let it never be forgotten that all these lands, along with the administrative jiggery-pokery that redefined the Furness district and “Lancashire across the sands” as Cumbria, remain irrevocably within the County Palatine of Lancaster.
Many gradely folk share the sentiment “insufferably bumptious Yorkshire” and have long held the view that the only good that comes out Yorkshire are the roads into Lancashire.
Robert Wright (Exiled Lancastrian)
Caersws, Montgomeryshire
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Source: Guardian Environment