East Riding
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The East Riding is one of the historical divisions of the county of Yorkshire.
The county of Yorkshire has been divided since Viking times into three regions, also called ridings: these are the East, North and West Ridings.*
Gilbert Norrell's servant John Childermass is apparently from the East Riding, where, we are told, his mother Black Joan once ran a gang of child pickpockets [63].
Notes
*. The term is thought to derive from thrithiungr, the Norse word for a third part.