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It may be unfashionable to admit it these days but Yorkshire as we know it was created by the monasteries, the Benedictines in the larger centres of population, used as a tool of colonisation by the Normans to surpress any vistiges of Anglo-Saxon culture, and the Cistercians who remote areas with their advanced farming technology, especially the cultivation of sheep, leading to the immense wealth crteated by the wool trade.