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The West Yorkshire Lieutenancy
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Visit of HRH The Duke of Kent |
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| Wine growing in Yorkshire can be traced back to the Cistercian monks at Kirkstall Abbey and the Benedictines of York | ||||||||||
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| Leventhorpe Vineyard is England's most northerly commercial vineyard, which employs traditional methods together with modern equipment and techniques, which, when coupled with the sheltered southern slope, excellent ripening and the rich Yorkshire soil, produces a wine full of body and character.
The main wines from this vineyard are Seyval and Madeleine Angevine, both early ripening white varieties and Triomphe, a red grape, with the vineyard producing somewhere in the region of ten to twenty thousand bottles of wine each year, dependant on weather and harvest conditions |
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The role of the Lieutenancy | |
The County of West Yorkshire | ||||
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The Lord Lieutenant | |
History of the West Yorkshire Lieutenancy | ||||
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The Lieutenancy team | |
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The Lord Lieutenant's scrapbook | |
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Last updated 5th November 2007