Yorkshire

• Type: County
• Location: Northern England, United Kingdom
• Owner/Residents: Notable residents include the Skeeter family. It is also the home region of the Appleby Arrows Quidditch team.
• Key Features: A large, historic county in England, known for its moors and dales, providing a vast and often sparsely populated landscape.

Yorkshire is a historic county in Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. In the wizarding world, it functions as it does in the Muggle world, serving as a geographical reference and the home of at least one prominent Quidditch team. The county's vast and often remote landscapes, such as the moors, make it a plausible location for concealed wizarding activity and residences. The Appleby Arrows Quidditch team, established in 1612, is based in Yorkshire. The team wears pale blue robes emblazoned with a silver arrow. Their supporters historically had a tradition of shooting arrows into the air from their wands whenever their Chasers scored a goal. This practice was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894 after a referee, Nugent Potts, was impaled through the nose by a stray arrow (QA).

Yorkshire is mentioned on several occasions in the series, helping to ground the magical world within the real geography of Great Britain.

• Flying Ford Anglia Sighting (1992): After Harry Potter and Ron Weasley flew Arthur Weasley's enchanted Ford Anglia to Hogwarts, a Ministry of Magic spokeswizard later reported that several Muggles in Yorkshire had seen the flying car, contributing to a serious breach of the International Statute of Secrecy.
• Rita Skeeter's Imprisonment (1995): After discovering that journalist Rita Skeeter was an unregistered beetle Animagus, Hermione Granger trapped her in a magically-reinforced jar. To ensure Skeeter's silence, Hermione threatened to keep her imprisoned, noting that her parents were taking her to Yorkshire and that Skeeter would have to remain in the jar for the duration. This implies the Granger family had connections to, or were vacationing in, the county.
• Quidditch Rivalry: As the home of the Appleby Arrows, Yorkshire is one side of a fierce, centuries-old rivalry with the Wimbourne Wasps of Dorset (QA).

While the county is established as a location, no specific wizarding towns, villages, or notable magical buildings within Yorkshire are described in the novels. The primary wizarding point of interest is the home ground of the Appleby Arrows Quidditch team, though its exact location within the vast county remains unknown.

The use of real-world locations like Yorkshire is a key feature of the Harry Potter series, helping to integrate the hidden magical world into a familiar British setting. J.K. Rowling's decision to base a prominent Quidditch team in the North of England provides geographical diversity to the Quidditch League of Britain and Ireland and reflects the strong regional identities present in the United Kingdom.