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Bigger Trees Near Warter
Bigger Trees Near Warter or ou Peinture en Plein Air pour l'age Post-Photographique is a large landscape painting by British artist David Hockney. Measuring 460 by 1,220 centimetres or 180 by 480 inches, it depicts a coppice near Warter, Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire and is the largest painting Hockney has completed. It was painted in the East Riding of Yorkshire between February and March 2007. The painting's alternative title alludes to the technique Hockney used to create the work, a combination of painting out of doors and in front of the subject (called in French 'sur le motif') whilst also using the techniques of digital photography.
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Kiplingcotes Derby
Kiplingcotes Derby (also spelt Kipling Cotes), run at Kiplingcotes in the East Riding of Yorkshire, is widely accepted to be the oldest annual horse race in the English sporting calendar. It reputedly began in 1519 and takes place on the third Thursday in March, often in exceptionally adverse weather conditions. The 500th race took place on 21 March 2019.
One quirk of the ancient rules means that the second place rider often receives more in prize money than the winner. It is run, not over a typical modern racecourse, but partly along the wide verge of a roadside. A clerk is paid 5 shillings (25p) annually for maintaining it.
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St James' Church, Warter
St James’ Church lies in Warter, an estate village in England, in the Yorkshire Wolds, part of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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Warter
Warter is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Pocklington on the B1246 road and 18 miles (29 km) from the city of York.
According to the 2011 UK census, Warter parish had a population of 144, a reduction on the 2001 UK census figure of 159.
The name Warter probably derives from the Old English weargtrēow meaning 'the tree of the felon'. Alternatively, it may derive from wearrtrēow meaning 'callused tree'.
It is the location for Warter Priory, which was an Augustinian Priory dedicated to St James founded in 1132 by Geoffrey Fitz-Pain. The chronicler Stephen Eyton was a canon there. It was dissolved in 1536 by the dissolution under King Henry VIII. The site of this priory is now a scheduled monument to the north of St James' Church.
The dimensions of St James' Church, cloister, other buildings and the shape of their roofs were recorded along with details of the vestments and church plate. The church was 40 by 12 yards with a quire of 28 by 9 yards; the cloister 96 yards in circuit and 4 yards in breadth. The parish church of St James was designated a Grade II listed building in January 1967 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England.
A coppice near the village was the inspiration for the landscape painting Bigger Trees Near Warter by David Hockney.
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Warter Priory
Warter Priory is an 11,000-acre (4,500 ha) country estate in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire Wolds, centred one mile (1.6 km) south-west of the village of Warter and three miles (4.8 km) east of Pocklington. The estate had a country house from the 17th century until its demolition in 1972.