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Yorkshire, Internet style!
Ayup Online Magazine is THE website for the finest county in England.

Ayup has the best that Yorkshire culture has to offer and a whole heap of the worst too. We've got the tourism, the terrier, the pudding, the genealogy , the groovy web log, the lot. If it's your Yorkshire it's right here. A one stop shop fer all things Yorkie.

An outspoken magazine to reflect the positive spirit at the heart of our county - the biggest and proudest region of the UK.

The reach of the site includes North Yorkshire - West Yorkshire - The Yorkshire Dales - South Yorkshire -East Riding - Humberside

and the towns and cities of Ackworth - Barnsley - Baildon - Batley - Bedale - Beverley - Bingley - Bolton Abbey - Brighouse - Bradford Bridlington - Castleford - Cleckheaton - Denby Dale - Dewsbury - Doncaster - Filey - Goathland - Guiseley Halifax - Harrogate - Haworth - HebdenBridge - Heckmondwike - Hemsworth - Holmfirth - Huddersfield Hunmanby - Ilkley - Ingleton - Keighley - Kingston Upon Hull - Knaresborough - Leeds - Malton - Masham - Middlesbrough ( Yeah, you're in...) - Mirfield - Morley - Northallerton - Ossett - Otley - Pickering - Pontefract - Pudsey - Queensbury - Richmond Ripon - Robin Hood's Bay - Rotherham - Saltaire - Scarborough - Selby - Settle - Sheffield - Shipley - Skipton Tadcaster - Thirsk - Wakefield - Wetherby - Whitby - York.

 

 

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Yorkshire's Ayup Online Magazine -The best that Yorkshire culture has to offer and a whole heap of the worst too. An outspoken magazine to reflect the positive spirit at the heart of our county - the biggest and proudest region of the UK.
YORKSHIRE ONLINE - AYUP - The Ultimate Yorkshire website


New MUFC Kit Unveiled!

In the interests of cross county support, we proudly unveil the new Manchester United kit! More

Casper! Wake up lad!
Writer Simon Golding is looking for anyone connected with our favourite movie, Ken Loach's 'Kes' - based on Barry Hines GCSE standard 'A Kestrel for A Knave'. Click here for more

SHOP!
After five years of not giving a monkeys about actually making any money we've put some gear up to buy - mainly because some of you have been nagging us.

So for the coolest Yorkshire kit you'll ever see we give you the Ayup Shop! Click here

MUSIC:
The All-time Yorkshire Music Top 50.
The results are in! A Yorkshire Chart as voted for by you lot .READ MORE

FOOTBALL:
John Charles passes on. We salute the great man.
MORE
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Blogga's gone offline, having sold his iBook at the car boot sale, so until we can club together to get him a new lappy we'll have to make do with his old stuff. Blogging...

NEW!
Call That a Dog?
In search of the first Yorkshire Terrier

Beefburger Ben
A pioneer of the Yorkshire accent on mainstream telly.
Click Here for TV ad (Realplayer)

Old (and we mean old!) articles

Len Liggins
The Ukrainian Phenomenon Explained

Mick McCarthy
A Yorkshireman made a big noise at the World Cup.

In Praise of Zoe Tate
Leah Bracknell- Emmerdale's reigning soap queen...

True Grit - Ken Loach

All that Jazz - Clare Teal

The Halifax Gibbet

A table dance with Peter Stringfellow
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On The Dole in York
Waiting for the Postman by Keith Golding

The Yorkshire Emigration
Canada: Tantramar's Yorkshire family ties are as strong as ever.

Selby Rail Crash Verdict

The Sinking of the Sheffield
The Falklands War 20th Anniversary

Leeds from the front - John Charles
As the great man turns 70, we profile Leeds United's greatest ever player.

Uriah Rennie
Football:The relegated referee

La Guerra Civil
The Spanish Civil War's Yorkshire Connection

Tarn Today
The busy state of Barnsley music in 2002.

"I'm Jack"
In shadow of the Yorkshire Ripper.

Marathon Man
Eric Jackson - Around the World In 40 days

A Very Northern Funeral
A journey home to pay last respects

All the cultural links you'll ever need.

All the sites that make life worth living.

Anyone with a particularly good Homepage based in the Peoples' Republic, communicate!

(for the best of the personal pages, see Our Favourites on our links page.)

We need more personal sites - are you out there? We're bored! We need excitement!

northerner@ayup.co.uk

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Yorkshire's Ayup Online Magazine -The best that Yorkshire culture has to offer and a whole heap of the worst too. An outspoken magazine to reflect the positive spirit at the heart of our county - the biggest and proudest region of the UK.

 

 

 

Shameless attempt to get your money!! :-)
Plus proper Yorkshire Rose gear thanks to our friends at the Yorkshire Posts.
Our Shop

Click for more Yorkshire Store


The Rogues Gallery
H
ow many famous Yorks faces can you name?

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Yorkshire Links
The best links in Yorkshire
click the logo below for our legendary links collection

How people found our site
via search engines

.Click here
(there are some REALLY wierd people on the net...)


Yorkshire Links
(Music pages all updated Feb 2004)

You did know that none of these websites have anything to do with Ayup.co.uk and we've got nowt to do with their content? You did? Cool.

The 2004 Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

PS - If you're piggybacking some big org like Geocities or Yahoo you'll just get the main site's rank. Sorry.

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