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With its inimitable humour, love of tea and dedication to cricket in all weathers, there can be little doubt the Great British spirit is alive and well in Yorkshire.
But it has today gone one step further in cementing its reputation as God’s Own County, after a study found it is the most “British” region in the UK.
A study of the DNA of people living in Yorkshire has revealed the country to have the highest percentage of Anglo-Saxon ancestry, at 41.17 per cent compared with a national average of just 36.94 per cent.
London, unsurprisingly, showed the most ethnically diverse DNA backgrounds, while the East Midlands proved to have the most Scandinavian ancestry.
The study, by AncestryDNA, looked into 500 years of the UK’s ethnic make-up, tracking 26 global regions to home shores.
It used data from members of the public who have signed up to test their own DNA, submitting saliva samples which can then be tested to find a prediction of where their ancestors came from.
Compiling the statistics anonymously, the website then assessed 15,000 member samples by...
