Culture and Media
The writer Winifred Holtby who was born at Rudston lived in the area and described the Wolds as "fold upon fold of the encircling hills, piled rich and golden."
The Yorkshire Wolds were a subject of BBC TV's Inside Out (North) programme on 2 February 2007. The Yorkshire Wolds Versatile Brass entertains local communities in local venues in the Yorkshire Wolds region.
David Hockney has featured the Yorkshire Wolds in many of his paintings that were shown at the Royal Academy in the exhibition 'A Bigger Picture' in the Spring of 2012
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