Passion, ambition, heart

Yorkshire, like no other

 A region that boasts
63 superb training and
event facilities that can
cater to 27 of the 38
Olympic sports and 16
of the 20 Paralympic
disciplines.
Yorkshire and Humber
Contents

Uniquely Yorkshire 02
The Heart of the UK 04
Built for Performance 06
Smart and Connected 16
The Science of Success 18
Perpetual Motion 20
Venues and Facilities
Sheffield and South Yorkshire 22
Leeds and West Yorkshire 24
Hull and Humber 26
York and North Yorkshire 26
High-Speed Connections 28
Kick Back 30
Win Here 32
Venues and Facilities
Sheffield and South Yorkshire 34
Leeds and West Yorkshire 36
Hull and Humber 38
York and North Yorkshire 38
Uniquely Yorkshire The birthplace of English Horse Racing
Yorkshire Events approach is one based on creating events The Kiplingcotes Derby is said to be the oldest
without boundaries, leveraging assets such as our world class flat race in England, dating back to 1519. Taking
place in Market Weighton in of East Yorkshire
infrastructure, superb natural environment, our cutting edge every year since, the rules state that if the race
digital media industry and the warmth of the Yorkshire people. isn’t run one year, it should never be run again.
We’re passionate about what we do and have
a fantastic major events programme already in place. We do this
for the organisations that own them, the businesses that benefit
from them, the towns and cities that host them and for the
people that bring them to life: the visitors to Yorkshire.
We have strong, committed relationships
with regional partners including sporting federations, cultural
organisations, local authorities, the private sector and of course
the event owners. So we’re perfectly positioned to deliver
outstanding events with real and long-lasting resonance.
In recent years we have hosted and applied
our unique stamp to a broad range of events including the
global showcase that is the Indian International Film Academy
Awards, the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race and the
Tour of Britain Cycle Race.
We have also secured prestigious events
like the UK School Games, the European Fencing Championships
and the World Short Track Skating Championships and are
currently in negotiations for many, many more.

The Tour of Britain Zara Phillips at the

races through historic
York
We’re passionate about what we do Bramham International
Horse Trials
and have a fantastic major events
programme already in place. We do this
for the organisations that own them,
the businesses that benefit from them,
the towns and cities that host them
and for the people that bring them to
life: the visitors to Yorkshire.
The 2007 IIFA Awards
were held in Sheffield

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The Heart of the UK The Birth of Rugby League
The region is dotted with vibrant, dynamic cities set in dramatic Twenty-two clubs (plus Stockport who
countryside, taking in everything from the rolling Pennine hills in negotiated by telephone) met at The George
Hotel in Huddersfield, in the West Riding of
the west to breath-taking coastlines in the east. Yorkshire boasts Yorkshire, and formed the ‘Northern Rugby
the largest athletics stadium in the UK, Europe’s deepest diving Football Union’. Within fifteen years of that first
pool, the UK’s fastest growing city, 2007’s European Tourism City meeting in Huddersfield, more than 200 RFU
clubs had left to join the rugby revolution.
of the Year, the world’s oldest Classic Horse Race and is the home
to the World Snooker Championship.
With the M1 and A1 running north to south
through the region and the M62 linking east with west, Yorkshire
and the Humber is one huge crossroads. London is around two
hours from most areas of Yorkshire and Humber, and just 90 minutes
from Doncaster. Leeds Bradford and Humberside Airports provide
connections to over 40 countries and Manchester International Airport YORKSHIRE
is less than an hour away. In 2005, these were joined by Robin Hood AND HUMBER York
Doncaster Sheffield Airport, which is adding more international travel
routes to its roster by the day.
With a population of over 5 million, the region
is a business hotspot and a magnet for ambitious and enterprising Hull
organisations, including 5 of the world’s top 10 companies.
As Britain’s biggest county, Yorkshire has more historic houses, Leeds
castles and national parkland than anywhere else, along with Bradford
the best shopping in the north of England.

Sheffield

With a population of over 5 million,

the region is a business hotspot
and a magnet for ambitious and
enterprising organisations, including
5 of the world’s top 10 companies.
As Britain’s biggest county, Yorkshire
has more historic houses, castles and M1

national parkland than anywhere

else, along with the best shopping The coasts of North

in the north of England. Yorkshire are a magnet

for watersports fans

LONDON

Penine Haworth,
in West Yorkshire

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Built for Performance Father of modern Football
Having invested heavily to win its position as one of Europe’s Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831–1924) was an
sporting capitals, Yorkshire and Humber regularly secures major English sportsman and is regarded as the father
of The Football Association and modern Football
fixtures against stiff international competition. and, to a certain extent, of all organised Football.
The region proudly boasts state-of-the-art facilities, He drafted the first Laws of the Game and was
particularly in Leeds and Sheffield (with flagship venues such as the Football Association’s first secretary and its
second president.
the English Institute of Sport and Ponds Forge International Sports
Centre), with a significant programme of investment currently
underway to further strengthen Doncaster, Bradford and York.
The region’s traditional sporting strengths have
included indoor track and field, cricket, football, rugby, show jumping
and horse racing – but it is also able to meet and exceed the exact
requirements of a huge range of international sporting teams.
Yorkshire and Humber is poised to play a major
supporting role in the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics;
hosting preliminary matches and tournaments and delivering
fantastic training camps for a large number of Olympic disciplines.
The region already has 63 superb training and
event facilities that can cater to 27 of the 38 Olympic sports and 16
of the 20 Paralympic disciplines, including excellent disabled access.

The Don Valley Athletics Paralympic sports

Stadium in Sheffield The region’s traditional sporting benefit from the Region’s
strength in advanced
strengths have included indoor track sports technology and
manufacturing design

and field, cricket, football, rugby, show

jumping and horse racing – but it is
also able to meet and exceed the
exact requirements of a huge range
of international sporting teams.

Hull City’s KC Stadium,

just one of the Region’s
Premiership standard
stadiums

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 International sporting events held in the region:
International Grand Prix Athletics
Norwich Union World Trials and UK Championship
International Netball Test Series
World Snooker Championships
LTA Men’s $10,000 International Tournament
The UK’s best outdoor International Volleyball
– European Championships, 1st Round
athletics venue, with an FINA Diving World Series
Women’s 4 Nations Handball Tournament
all-weather track and ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating
World-title boxing
seating for 50,000 The World Corporate Games
The World Masters Swimming Championships
The World Short-Track Speed Skating
Championships
The World Masters Squash Championships
Test-match cricket
Clipper round the world yacht race
The Motorcycling World Indoor Trials
Championships
The World Student Games
Tour of Britain Cycle Race
Women’s Division Three World Ice Hockey
Championships
The CMAS Underwater Hockey World
Championships
The International Indoor Bowls Tournament
World Matchplay Bowls Championship
International Trampolining and
Tumbling Tournament
The World Firefighters’ Games

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UK sporting events held in the region include:
British Figure and Ice Dance Championships National Masters Swimming Championships
LTA British Tour The British Ice Figure & Dance Championships
UK Athletics Indoor City Challenge Final The British Open Show Jumping Championships
English Senior Olympic wrestling Championships The British Handball Cup Final
British University Championships British Swimming Championships (50M) and
English Table Tennis Senior
National Championships
Olympic Trials 2008
British Junior Open Squash Championships Yorkshire and Humberside
England Basketball National
Championship Finals is poised to play a major
National Speedo Swimming League Cup Final
GB Cup – International Wrestling supporting role in the 2012
FA National Futsal Championships
FA Junior Futsal Finals Games, hosting preliminary
British Fencing Championships
National Age Groups and Youth Swimming matches and tournaments
Championships
ASA National Swimming Championships
The Great Yorkshire Run – Sheffield
British Judo Championships
National County Team Swimming
Championships

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Three international airports
providing fast connections to
over 40 destinations
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European sporting events held in the region include:
Eurohockey Nations Indoor Challenge
European Youth Top 10 Table Tennis Tournament
European League Volleyball
The European Short-Track Speed Skating
Championships
European Indoor Athletics
Disability sporting events held in the region include:
DSE National Long Course Swimming
Championships and Paralympic Trials
Boccia Championships
Disability Sport Events Junior Swimming
Championships
Duke of Edinburgh Awards Disability Games
Disability Sport Events National Short Course The Centre for Sports and
Swimming Championships
IWF Eurozone Champions Cup (wheelchair Exercise Science at Sheffield
basketball)
Hallam University delivered
technology and support
services to 23 of Britain’s
medallists at the 2004
Athens Olympics and
Paralympics

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Smart and Connected Sebastian Coe
Whether you’re moving data or people, it’s easy in Yorkshire and Lord Sebastian Coe began running in Sheffield
Humber. The region was one of the first in the UK to achieve at the age of 12 and went on to win four Olympic
medals and set eight outdoor and three indoor
100% broadband enablement, has made a multi-million dollar world records in middle distance track events.
investment in next-generation, high-speed broadband, and has His rivalries with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and
extensive domestic and international transport links. With its highly Steve Cram dominated middle-distance racing
for much of the 1980s. He is now the chairman
educated population, industry expertise, low business costs and of the London Organising Committee for the
passion for excellence, Yorkshire and Humber enjoys the reputation Olympic Games.
of being one of the UK’s most attractive and competitive locations
to live and work, and is widely recognised as a preferred place
to do business.
The region has one of the highest concentrations
of universities in Europe, attracting over $US660 million in research
investment (more than Oxford or Cambridge), and producing 10%
of the UK’s graduates. This has helped establish Yorkshire and
Humber as one of the UK’s leading centres for innovation, in some
of the world’s fastest-growing industry sectors.
And it’s all just an hour from London by air, or
two hours by high-speed rail.

With some of the UK’s best

Universities Yorkshire attracts
students from all over the world

The region has one of the highest

concentrations of universities in
Europe, attracting over $US660
million in research investment (more
than Oxford or Cambridge), and
producing 10% of the UK’s graduates.
Sheffield Train Station, one of
the Region’s two high speed
rail links to the Eurostar at
St Pancras

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The Science of Success Herbert Chapman The group has contributed to numerous Olympic winter and
Yorkshire and Humber knows how to compete, and how to win. Chapman was one of the most successful and summer gold medal winning performances, the success of the
This is a region with a long pedigree of sporting passion, of producing influential managers in early 20th century English majority of motor racing world champions over the last decade,
football but his influence was also felt far beyond
sporting heroes, and of investing in sport. This is a region working England. He introduced new tactics – such as and victories in the last three America’s Cup challenges. Research
hard to drive forward the understanding of every aspect of sport: the ‘WM’ formation – and training techniques by its members has also solved some of the most puzzling
biological, psychological, medical, economic, technical, and scientific. into the English game, as well as championing scientific conundrums in sport, including football, tennis, cricket
innovations such as floodlighting, European club
This is the only region in the world that is home competitions and numbered shirts. and swimming.
to a cluster of world-class sports science, sports technology, sports The Sports Industry Research Centre (SIRC),
medicine, and sports economics research groups, all working closely a joint venture by two local universities, offers applied research
with top sports people and leading product and service companies. and consultancy services specialising in the economic impact
Yorkshire and Humber has a number of top of sporting events, including analysis and forecasts of all sports
performing Universities with a long tradition of academic research markets for the next five years.
in sports and physical education, each with outstanding facilities
and equipped with some of the most advanced sports and exercise
The research teams have strong links to,
and share joint projects with, other research centres in Europe,
Yorkshire and Humber is in a unique
science laboratories in the UK.
Established in 1998, the region’s Sports
North America and Australia. Close partnerships with professional
sportspeople, business and government offer mutually beneficial
position to offer an unparalleled range
Engineering Research Group (SERG) has already become one
of the world’s leading authorities in the field. Its research projects
access to extensive, pioneering research technology and
consultancy—contributing directly to the success of sporting
of expertise to sports organisations
range from fundamental questions about ball aerodynamics to
collaborations with the sports industry seeking improved product
medallists and to the development of word-class sports equipment.
Yorkshire and Humber is in a unique position
and elite athletes. This is a region
performance. It is a technical consultant to the Olympic Innovation
Programme of UK Sport (Performance Directorate), and hosts many
to offer an unparalleled range of expertise to sports organisations
and elite athletes. This is a region dedicated to creating future
dedicated to creating future champions
important sports-support initiatives. champions — including yours. — including yours.
The English Institute of Sport
analyses the performance of
some of the UK’s top athletes

Established in 1998, the region’s

Sports Engineering Research Group
(SERG) has already become one of
the world’s leading authorities in
the field. Its research projects range
from fundamental questions about
ball aerodynamics to collaborations
with the sports industry seeking
improved product performance.

The Sports Engineering

Research Group test the
aerodynamic properties
of footballs

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Perpetual Motion
As you would expect from a region of such rich sporting heritage,
Yorkshire’s events programme is as broad as it is long. Every year
since 1977 the eyes of the world’s Snooker fans have been drawn to
Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre for the World Championship Snooker,
the highlight of Snooker’s calendar.
The Tour of Britain cycle race is now a firm fixture
in the region with some of the world’s top cyclists competing to
master the challenging terrain of the Yorkshire countryside. Sheffield’s
Great Yorkshire Run will also see world standard competitors rub
shoulders with amateurs and celebrities alike and will see them
running through the streets to the city’s Hillsborough Stadium.
The 2009/10 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
starts and finishes in Hull on Yorkshire and Humber’s east coast with
the Hull and Humber boat taking in a tour of the world on it’s way.
British Universities and Colleges Sport
Championships are once more taking place in Yorkshire with four
days of multi-sport action. Over 5,000 student athletes are expected
to compete in 24 sports at 14 venues across Yorkshire.
The 2009/10 Clipper Round the World
Yacht Race starts and finishes in Hull
on Yorkshire and Humber’s east coast
with the Hull and Humber boat taking
in a tour of the world on it’s way.
Fred Trueman
Frederick Sewards Trueman OBE (6 February
1931–1 July 2006) was a Yorkshire and
England cricketer, regarded as one of the
greatest fast bowlers in history. Known as Fiery
Fred, he was first man to take 300 Test wickets,
and later became a popular and outspoken
radio summariser.
The Red Hot Chilli
Peppers performing
at The Don Valley
Stadium, Sheffield
The FINA Diving World Series sees the world’s best divers perform
at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, just one of Sheffield’s
world class sports facilities, over two days in this spectacular
event that attracts coverage from across the world.
Yorkshire and Humber has extensive experience
in staging successful big events. The region fought off strong
competition from, among others, New York to win the prestigious
2007 International Indian Film Academy Weekend and Awards (the
‘Bollywood Oscars’), watched by 315 million people world-wide.
The award-winning Harrogate International
Centre, the UK’s largest integrated conference/exhibition venue,
attracts international events throughout the year from the worlds
of sport, the arts, medicine, business, politics and leisure.
Yorkshire and Humber’s stadiums, arenas and
The region fought off strong
open-air parks attract some of the world’s biggest and most exciting
cultural events, with its festivals encompassing the digital arts, film,
competition from, among others,
antiquarian books, jazz, comedy and music. The Bradford Mela is the
most important Asian cultural festival outside Asia, and each year
New York to win the prestigious 2007
the Leeds Festival weekend attracts 70,000 contemporary music fans,
with a further 30,000 coming together for the O2 Wireless Festival
International Indian Film Academy
at Harewood House. In 2006, over 100,000 people enjoyed Robbie
Williams at an open-air concert in Leeds’ Roundhay Park.
Weekend and Awards (the ‘Bollywood
Oscars’), watched by 315 million people
world-wide.

Over 5,000 student athletes are

expected to compete in 24 sports
at 14 venues across Yorkshire.

The Clipper Round the Sheffields Great Yorkshire Run

World Yacht Race starts
and finishes in Hull

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Venues and Facilities Sheffield FC The area’s venues include:
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Yorkshire is officially recognised by FIFA as the The Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield
Sheffield is the UK’s first National City of Sport, offering world-class birth-place of club football, as Sheffield FC who This is the UK’s best outdoor athletics venue,
were founded in 1857 are certified as the oldest
facilities for the majority of Olympic disciplines, notably athletics, association football club in the world. The club with an all-weather track and seating for 50,000.
pentathlon, fencing, diving, swimming, boxing and judo. are also noted for participating in the world’s
Other facilities in the city include tennis centres, oldest footballing rivalry. Sheffield competed The English Institute of Sport, Sheffield
against Hallam in the world’s first inter-club
multi-purpose sports halls, national football stadiums, and the match during 1860 the match is known as the Arguably the UK’s best indoor training facility.
750-acre Rother Valley Country Park (offering sailing and windsurfing), ‘Sheffield’ or ‘Rules’ derby.
with rowing facilities close by in the Peak District National Park. Ponds Forge International Sports Centre
Sheffield’s Universities are able to host specialist Olympic-standard swimming and diving facilities.
activities such as kick-boxing, trampolining and rock-climbing.
Sheffield has a unique cluster of four world-class, sport-related IceSheffield
University research and consultancy centres in sports engineering, With one of only two Olympic-sized, twin-pad ice
sports science, sports economics and sports medicine, lending arenas in the UK, offers ice hockey, figure skating
pioneering expertise to such sports as sailing, cycling, skeleton and speed skating.
bobsleigh, diving and squash.
The Centre for Sports and Exercise Science at The Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield
Sheffield Hallam University offers its extensive expertise to divers, Home to Britain’s first professional ice-hockey team
boxers, rugby players, leading amateur and professional golfers
and the GB sailing team, and the city’s sports experts delivered
and capable of hosting a variety of sporting fixtures. The UK’s best outdoor
technology and support services to 23 of Britain’s medallists at
the 2004 Athens Olympics and Paralympics. As home to the
Sheffield Ski Village
Europe’s largest outdoor ski centre.
athletics venue, with an
Sports Engineering Research Group the university is working with
international brands such as Adidas and Speedo to create
all-weather track and
innovative products for elite sport.
Sheffield’s high-quality R&D support is also
seating for 50,000.
made available to sports-related business, resulting in some
remarkable product innovations including the Zen Tour Blade
putter and the Planet-X Stealth TT handlebars.
Sheffield’s Inclusive Fitness Initiative is a national The Don Valley
project for improving disabled access to sports facilities, designing Stadium, Sheffield
inclusive equipment, and developing new inclusive sporting
opportunities.

The English Institute of Sport, Sheffield The Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield

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Venues and Facilities
Leeds and West Yorkshire
The West Yorkshire cities of Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield and
Huddersfield offer international venues for disciplines ranging
from equestrianism to hockey and rock climbing, in addition
to indoor and outdoor athletics training grounds and all-weather
and grass multi-use pitches.
Headingley Carnegie has two
stadiums; one for Rugby Union and
Rugby League, with a capacity of
22,000, and one for cricket,
holding 17,000.
The John Charles Centre for Sport has
an Olympic-grade swimming pool and
international-standard indoor and
outdoor athletics arenas.
Elland Road, home to Leeds United
Football Club, has a capacity of
40,000 and was a Euro ’96 venue.
Supporting Leeds Rino’s at
Headingley Carnegie Stadium
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Geoff Boycott
Over a Test career spanning 18 years Boycott
scored 8,114 runs in 108 Test matches for
England. He was the first England cricketer to
pass 8,000 Test runs. His average of 47.73 runs
over 193 innings is better than any other England
player since 1970. His Test career included 22
centuries and on 11/12 August 1977 he scored
191 against Australia in the fourth Test at Leeds,
becoming the first cricketer to score his one
hundredth first class century in a Test match.
Headingley Carnegie
Stadium, home to
Yorkshire Cricket Club
Leeds United FC
The area’s venues include: The John Charles Centre for Sport
The Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield The centre has an Olympic-grade swimming pool
This award-winning venue for international rugby and international-standard indoor and outdoor
has a 40,000 capacity, hosts football events and athletics arenas.
has one of the UK’s top-10 golf driving ranges.
The Carnegie Sports Centre, Leeds
Elland Road Stadium, Leeds Metropolitan University
This venue is home to Leeds United Football Club, This venue features an Olympic-standard athletics
has a capacity of 40,000 and was a Euro ’96 venue. track, weights facilities and a gymnastics centre;
it is also the national triathlon centre.
Odsal Stadium, Bradford
This 24,000-capacity stadium has hosted sports
including show jumping, basketball, wrestling,
kabaddi and speedway. Plans for a new sporting
village incorporate a cricket field, floodlit soccer
pitch, athletics track, state-of-the-art indoor sports
and leisure facility, and an indoor arena.
Headingley Carnegie Stadium, Leeds
This site has two stadiums; one for Rugby Union
and Rugby League, with a capacity of 22,000, and
one for cricket, holding 17,000.
Venues and Facilities
Hull and Humber, York and North Yorkshire
To the east and north of the region, Hull and York are both major
cities offering excellent transport infrastructure and sporting facilities
at both stadiums and university campuses.
Hull’s large ports complex staged the Wilberforce
Cup in 2007, a warm-up race between Hull and Rotterdam as part of
the preparations for the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race and
involving all ten competing yachts.
York University has just begun a 10–15 year
programme to expand its sports facilities as part of the university’s
plans to double its size.
Adrian Moorhouse
Adrian Moorhouse MBE, born in Bradford, West
Yorkshire in 1964, is a British former swimmer
who dominated British swimming in the late
1980s. He won the 100m breaststroke Gold
medal at the Seoul Olympics.
The area’s venues include:
The KC Stadium, Hull
With a capacity of 25,000, providing both football
and rugby league pitches. On-site are also a 1,500-
seat sports arena, a skate park, and two multi-use
all-weather pitches.
Hull Arena
A first-class ice skating venue, awarded Regional
Centre of Excellence status by the National Ice
Skating Association and recognised as the Northern
Centre of Excellence by the English Ice Hockey
Association. The venue has also hosted WWE Raw,
World Championship Boxing, and Speedway on Ice.

Rockcity, Hull
One of the UK’s largest indoor climbing centres,
where the varied artificial climbing surfaces total
in excess of 1,600 square metres and offer over
300 routes across 10 different walls.

The River Ouse in York offers

excellent rowing facilities and the
region’s two national parks regularly
host international mountain biking Mountain biking in
Dolby Forest, North
Yorkshire
and orienteering events.

The universities of Hull and York

both offer multi-purpose centres
for sports such as basketball,
badminton, volleyball, archery,
fencing, rugby, netball and
American football.

The Ebor Stand at Surfing at Cayton Bay,

York Racecourse Scarborough

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 High-Speed Connections
Getting to Yorkshire and Humber – and getting around once
you’re there – couldn’t be easier. Strategically located mid-way
between London and Edinburgh, the region benefits from a
superb network of national and international travel connections.
It has more motorways than anywhere else in the UK, the largest
port complex in the country, and direct connections by air to
dozens of international destinations. Lapland
The region has three international airports:
Leeds Bradford International Airport; Humberside Airport; and
the UK’s newest international airport, Robin Hood Doncaster
Sheffield. These provide fast connections to over 40 destinations
in 22 countries, with other nearby airports, including Manchester,
Newcastle, and Liverpool, offering many additional routes.
London is an hour away by air.
On the rails, two major north/south networks,
the country’s main cross-country network and a primary east/
west route all run through Yorkshire and Humber. London is just
two hours away by high-speed train, with onward connections
to mainland Europe via the Channel Tunnel.
Fast access to and from other regions is
provided by an extensive motorway network. The region is
clustered around the motorways connecting the south of the
England with Scotland, and also with those traversing the
country from west to east, from Liverpool to Hull.

Denmark

Ireland
United Holland
Kingdom Belgium Poland
Germany Czech
Republic
Channel
Islands
France
Austria
Switzerland

Italy Bulgaria
Mainland
Denver Spain Balearics
Portugal Island Greece
Turkey

Malta
Cyprus

Canary Islands

Mexico
Caribbean

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Kick Back
While you’re in Yorkshire and Humber, take time out to enjoy
some of the richest landscapes, history and cultural diversions
in the whole of the UK – but allow plenty of time! There are 31,866
listed buildings, 2,663 ancient monuments, 779 conservation areas,
122 historic parks and gardens, 7 registered battlefields, 3 national
parks, 3 heritage coasts, 2 World Heritage sites, 3 areas of
outstanding natural beauty, and 2 cities voted ‘best UK city break’
(Leeds and York)!
You’ll also discover a region steeped in its
Roman, Viking and Norman past, overlaid with all the vibrant,
cosmopolitan attractions you’d expect from a cluster of 21st
century cities.
The three national parks (the Yorkshire Dales,
Peak District and North York Moors) offer spectacular landscapes.
Nestling among and around them are dozens of abbeys, castles,
stately homes and ancient churches and cathedrals, as well as
countless traditional pubs and tearooms. And a long stretch of
beautiful coastline invites you to get away from it all.
North Yorkshire was recently voted The Garden
of England, winning almost a third of the votes in a national TV
poll to prove that it really is England’s most beautiful county.
UNESCO World Heritage sites can be found at Fountains Abbey,
with its landscaped parkland, and at the Victorian mill village of
Saltaire, which also holds the largest public collection of work by
David Hockney.
The ancient city of York offers rare insight into
both Roman and Viking history: wander its winding mediaeval streets
and city walls, and visit its specialist boutiques and lively café bar
culture.
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North Yorkshire was recently voted
The Garden of England, winning almost
a third of the votes in a national TV
poll to prove that it really is England’s
most beautiful county.
UNESCO World Heritage sites can be
found at Fountains Abbey, with its
landscaped parkland, and at the
Victorian mill village of Saltaire, which
also holds the largest public collection
of work by David Hockney.
When it comes to shopping, Sheffield’s Meadowhall is one of
Europe’s largest shopping centres, with 270 stores under one roof. Leeds City Art Gallery is arguably the
Leeds’ Victoria Quarter, with its award winning stained-glass
canopy, is known as the Knightsbridge of the North – packed with best centre of 20th century British art
over 70 designer shops and, since 1996, home to Harvey Nichols’
first regional store. outside London, home to the Henry
Yorkshire and Humber’s 180 galleries and
museums include Bradford’s award-winning National Media Moore Institute. Yorkshire Sculpture
Museum (for photography, web, radio, film and television); York’s
National Railway Museum and Jorvik Viking Centre; and EUREKA! Park, one of Europe’s leading open-air
at Halifax, Britain’s first discovery centre for children. You’ll also
find monuments and museums dedicated to the region’s most galleries, is an international centre for
famous progeny – such as the Brontë sisters, abolitionist William
Wilberforce, author and playwright Alan Bennett, artist David modern and contemporary art, spread
Hockney, and vet and author James Herriott.
For classical music enthusiasts, Harewood over 500 acres of beautiful parkland.
House hosts the Classic Proms and regular open-air events, and
in 2006 the world renowned annual Leeds International Pianoforte 300 performance venues attract world
Competition received applicants from 39 countries.
Leeds City Art Gallery is arguably the best centre class artistes to Yorkshire
of 20th century British art outside London, home to the Henry
Moore Institute. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, one of Europe’s leading and Humber.
open-air galleries, is an international centre for modern and
contemporary art, spread over 500 acres of beautiful parkland.
300 performance venues attract world class artistes to Yorkshire
and Humber.
Home to one of the best theatre infrastructures
outside London, the region has six major producing theatres and
welcomes tours from many other national and international
companies. Leeds’ West Yorkshire Playhouse now stages more
productions than any other theatre outside London; other nationally
acclaimed companies include Opera North and Phoenix Dance.
Win here
The people of Yorkshire and Humber have always loved their sport.
From the glamour of international rugby, football and cricket teams
to the thunder of horses’ hooves; from the exhilarating thrills and
spills of sport on ice to the gentler pace of crown green bowling,
the people of this region compete to win.
This has made Yorkshire and Humber the sporting
capital of the UK, and a powerful force in Europe and the rest of
the world – attracting not only heavy investment in its world-class
sporting infrastructure of stadiums, arenas, indoor centres and Richmond
training facilities, but also some of the world’s most exciting
sporting fixtures.
And, because our people are renowned for
their friendly welcome, we invite you to come and make the most
of it all. Visit us, and see our outstanding facilities for yourself.

Harrogate York

Leeds
Bradford
Hull
Halifax

Wakefield

Huddersfield
Scunthorpe
Grimsby
Barnsley
Doncaster

Rotherham

Sheffield

This quick guide will help you to

identify which of Yorkshire and
Humber’s venues and facilities
are able to cater to the various
sporting disciplines.

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Venues and facilities
Sheffield and South Yorkshire
Barnsley
Barnsley FC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Barnsley FC Academy
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Metrodome
Wrestling, Gymnastics,
Badminton, Table Tennis,
Basketball, Boxing,
Fencing, Handball, Judo,
Taekwondo, Volleyball,
Weightlifting, Boccia,
Goal Ball, Power Lifting,
Wheelchair Basketball,
Wheelchair Rugby
Doncaster
Doncaster Lakeside Sports
Complex Wrestling,
Gymnastics, Football,
Football 5 a side, Football
7 a side Badminton,
Athletics, Basketball,
Boxing, Fencing, Handball,
Table Tennis, Taekwondo,
Volleyball, Weight Lifting,
Boccia, Judo, Wheelchair
Fencing, Goal Ball,
Power Lifting, Wheelchair
Basketball, Wheelchair
Rugby
34—35
Dome
Basketball, Gymnastics,
Badminton, Boxing,
Fencing, Handball, Judo,
Table Tennis, Taekwondo,
Volleyball, Weightlifting,
Wrestling, Boccia,
Wheelchair Fencing,
Goalball, Power
Lifting, Wheelchair
Basketball, Wheelchair
Rugby
Doncaster RFC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Doncaster Rovers RFC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Doncaster Training Ground
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Rotherham
Rotherham FC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Hooten Roberts Training Ground
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side, Cricket,
Basketball
Rotherham Titans
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Sheffield
Ponds Forge Leisure Centre
Basketball, Wrestling,
Weightlifting, Vollleyball,
Taekwondo, Table Tennis,
Judo, Handball,
Gymnastics, Fencing,
Badminton, Wheelchair
Basketball, Wheelchair
Rugby, Swimming
Don Valley Stadium
Athletics, Archery
Sheffield Hallam Arena
Badminton, Gymnnastics,
Wrestling, Weight Lifting,
Volleyball, Taekwondo,
Table Tennis, Handball,
Fancing, Basketball,
Boccia, Equestrian, Judo,
Wheelchair Fencing,
Wheelchair Tennis,
Powerlifting, Wheelchair
Basketball, Wheelchair
Rugby
English Institute of Sport
Athletics, Gymnastics,
Boxing, Fencing, Judo,
Handball, Table Tennis,
Taekwondo, Volleyball,
Weight Lifting, Wrestling,
Basketball, Wheelchair
fencing, Wheelchair Tennis,
Powerlifting, Wheelchair
Basketball, Wheelchair
Rugby
Concord Leisure Centre
Wrestling, Badminton,
Basketball, Boxing,
Fencing, Handball, Judo,
Table Tennis,Taekwondo,
Volleyball, Weight Lifting,
Boccia, Wheelchair
Fencing, Wheelchair
Basketball, Wheelchair
Rugby
Hillsborough Leisure Centre
Badminton, Wrestling,
Weight Lifting, Volleyball,
Taekwondo, Table Tennis,
Fencing, Handball, Judo,
Boxing, Basketball, Boccia,
Wheelchair Fencing,
Wheelchair Rugby,
Wheelchair Basketball,
Power Lifting
Sheffield Utd Academy
Cricket, Football, Football
5 a side, Football 7 a side
Sheffield Utd FC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Sheffield Wednesday FC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Middlewood Road Training Ground
Football, Football 5 a side
Football 7 a side,
Abbeydale Sports Club
Basketball, Archery, Cricket
Graves Tennis Centre
Tennis, Wheelchair Tennis
Waltheof LC
Volleyball
Sheffield Hallam University
Football, Archery
Hallamshire Tennis and Squash Club
Tennis Wheelchair Tennis
Northern General Hospital
Boccia, Judo, Volleyball,
Wheelchair Fencing,
Power Lifting, Table Tennis, Barnsley
Wheelchair Basketball, Doncaster
Wheelchair Rugby
Rotherham
Sheffield
Venues and facilities
Leeds and West Yorkshire
Bradford
Odsal Stadium
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Richard Dunn Sports Centre
Boxing, Gymnastics,
Badminton, Basketball,
Fencing, Wrestling,
Tabletennis, Taekwondo,
Volleyball, Weight Lifting,
Judo, Handball, Boccia,
Wheelchair Fencing,
Goalball, Power Lifing,
Wheelchair Basketball,
Wheelchair Rugby
Odsal Sports Village
Fencing, Gymnastics,
Handball, Judo, Table
Tennis, Taekwondo,
Volleyball, Weight Lifting,
Wrestling, Badminton,
Basketball, Boxing,
Wheelchair Rugby,
Wheelchair Basketball,
Power Lifting, Goal Ball,
Boccia, Wheelchair
Fencing.
Bradford City FC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Calderdale
Diamond Gymnastics Centre
Gymnastics
Huddersfield
Galpharm Stadium
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Huddersfield Town
Academy (Sports Barn)
Wrestling, Boxing, Judo,
Fencing, Table Tennis,
Taekwondo, Weight Lifting,
Football, Football 5 a side,
Boccia, Wheelchair
Fencing, Goal Ball
Stores Hall Training Ground
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
John Charles Centre for Sport
Athletics, Aquatics,
Swimmming, Badminton,
Boxing, Archery, Fencing,
Judo, Table Tennis,
Weight Lifting, Wrestling,
Boccia, Football, Football
5 a side, Power Lifting,
Wheelchair Fencing,
Wheelchair Tennis,
Leeds Metropolitan University
Wrestling, Gymnastics,
Archery, Badminton,
Basketball, Boxing,
Fencing, Football,
Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side, Handball,
Judo, Table Tennis,
Taekwondo, Tennis,
Triathlon, Volleyball,
Weight Lifting, Boccia,
Power Lifting, Wheelchair
Fencing, Wheelchair Tennis,
Wheelchair Basketball,
Wheelchair Rugby
Leeds University
Wrestling, Badminton,
Basketball, Boxing,
Fencing, Handball,
Table Tennis, Taekwondo,
Volleyball, Weight Lifting,
Boccia, Judo, Power Lifting
Leeds United FC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Leeds United FC Training Ground
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Headingley
Cricket, Football, Football
5 a side, Football 7 a side
Armley Table Tennis Centre
Tennis
Leeds Rugby Academy
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side,
Basketball, Cricket
Leeds International Pool
Aquatics, Swimming
Leeds Memorial Archery Centre
Archery
Tigers Boxing Academy
Boxing
Bramham Park
Equestrian
Ilkley Tennis Club
Tennis, Wheelchair Tennis
Riding for the Disabled
Equestrian
Wakefield
Thorne’s Park
Archery, Athletics

Leeds
Bradford

Halifax

Wakefield

Huddersfield

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Venues and facilities
Hull and Humber, York and North Yorkshire
East Yorkshire
Aike Grange Stud
Equestrian
Grimsby
Grimsby FC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
Hull
Vulcan Arena
Wrestling, Gymnastics,
Badminton, Basketball,
Boxing, Fencing, Handball,
Judo, Table Tennis,
Taekwondo, Volleyball,
Weightlifting, Boccia,
Goal Ball, Power Lifting,
Wheelchair Basketball,
Wheelchair Rugby,
Wheelchair Tennis
Hull Arena
Badminton, Gymnastics,
Wrestling, Weight Lifting,
Volleyball, Taekwondo,
Table Tennis, Judo,
Handball, Fencing,
Boxing, Basketball,
Boccia, Wheelchair
Fencing, Wheelchair
Tennis, Goal Ball,
Power Lifting, Wheelchair
Basketball, Wheelchair
Rugby
KC Stadium
Football, Football 5
a side, Football 7 a side
Costello Stadium
Athletics
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Hull University
Boccia, Judo, Volleyball,
Wheelchair Fencing,
Goal Ball, Power Lifting,
Table Tennis, Football
Kingston Park Tennis Centre
Tennis, Wheelchair Tennis
Richmond Richmond
Richmond Equestrian Centre
Equestrian
Catterick Garrison
Triathlon, Weight Lifting,
Taekwondo, Judo,
Tabletennis, Equestrian,
Boxing, Football, Football
5 a side, Football 7 a side,
Boccia, Wheelchair
Fencing, Volleyball,
Power Lifting, Wheelchair
Rugby
Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe FC
Football, Football 5 a side,
Football 7 a side
York
Harrogate York
York University
Wrestling, Basketball,
Boxing, Fencing, Football,
Football 7 a side, Handball,
Hockey, Judo, Table Tennis,
Taekwondo, Tennis, Archery
Cricket, Basketball,
Volleyball, Weight Lifting,
Boccia, Wheelchair
Fencing, Wheelchair Tennis,
Goal Ball, Power Lifting,
Wheelchair Basketball,
Wheelchair Rugby Hull
Huntington Stadium
Athletics
Scunthorpe
Grimsby
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