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The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) (Abbreviated: YORKS) is one of the largest infantry regiments of the British Army. The regiment is the only line infantry or rifles unit to represent a single geographical county in the new infantry structure, serving as the county regiment of Yorkshire covering the historical areas of the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Riding of Yorkshire and West Riding of Yorkshire, East Yorkshire and the current county areas of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. Its northern border is the historic Yorkshire boundary of the River Tees, which today includes the majority of Redcar and Cleveland and the south westerly part of County Durham. The regiment's antecedent units also recruited in areas that are now part of Northumberland, Cumbria, Lancashire and Tameside. The 3rd Battalion (Duke of Wellington's) (formerly the Duke of Wellington's Regiment) was given the Freedom of Mossley in Tameside on 8 July 1967 when Mossley was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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