ABSTRACT
North-east England and Yorkshire form for the most part an easily recognised region, with the Tweed as its northern boundary, the Humber estuary part of the southern limits, the Pennines watershed to the west and the North Sea to the east (Figure 7.1). Only to the south-west are the limits less clearly defined by natural features. The region thus comprises the counties (as they were defined until the reorganisation of 1996) of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham, Cleveland, North, West and South Yorkshire, North Humber-side and small parts of Cumbria and Derbyshire.
