The counties of Yorkshire are huge (for the UK) and they have been bigger.

But they've never crossed the river Tees to encompass Hartlepool the home town of CB and CB jnr

Historically the Tees was the boundary between Yorkshire and County Durham and you will find lots of road signs near the river saying you are entering the Historic Riding of North Yorkshire.

But now we have Tees Valley encompassing a fairly small stretch of land either side of the river Tees. For a brief period it was called County Cleveland. But you would find a lot of people still felt a kinship for Yorkshire and you would even have family's making sure their children were born in Middlesbrough hospitals (about 8-10 miles south) as they were historically in Yorkshire (some claimed it was so they could play cricket for Yorkshire when they grew up)

We actually have 4 managers in the Tees Valley area - the Angry Wolves guv'ner is now about as far towards the border of Yorkshire as you can get.

And I live there too, and whilst I admire the white rose county of Yorkshire I was actually born in the red rose county of Lancashire, traditionally rivals to Yorkshire in cricket and war (see War of the Roses)