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Dark Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

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Counties: East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire

A land of moors, mining disasters, forgotten asylums and bleak dales. Yorkshire’s rugged beauty often masks its darker side: tales of spectral highways, notorious criminals, ancient burial sites and lonely abbey ruins. This is a place where mist, legend and tragedy intertwine.

Life-size marble statue of Willy Collins in a boxing pose at his memorial in Willy Collins King of Sheffield - - Shiregreen Cemetery, Sheffield

Born Into a World of Hard Edges Willy “Big Willy” Collins grew up in a traveller family where loyalty, noise and conflict lived under the same roof. One of sixteen children, he learned early that weakness was dangerous. When the Collins family settled in Sheffield, the city didn’t soften him. […]

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