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In April 1939, in the front room of a cottage in the village of Clapham, Yorkshire, a magazine about local life was born.Ìý Seventy-five years on, the Dalesman is one of the most popular local publications, selling nearly 30,000 copies worldwide every month.Ìý To celebrate its birthday its readers have been voting for their top 75 Yorkshire icons and Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are on a mission to tick off as many as possible.Ìý The list is certainly varied featuring everything from historic abbeys, to food delicacies, to local celebs and the ever popular brass band.

Matt is meeting the Dalesman’s second editor, Bill Mitchell, to discover what he thinksÌýmakes this particular paper so special.Ìý PoetÌýIan McMillan and cartoonist Tony Husband – two regular contributors – are also throwing in their twopenn’orth about their Yorkshire highlights.Ìý And, as part of his challenge to tick off as many Yorkshire icons as possible, Matt’s sampling a very specific cheese, getting his tongue around some tricky local dialect and enjoying a cup of tasty tea.Ìý

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Ellie is visiting number 13 on the list of Yorkshire icons – Bolton Abbey. She discovers the secret and most cherished parts of the estate with managers Moira Smith and Roy Lingard. She also meets the Cappuccino Cycling Club - a group of ladies who love nothing more than a cycle and a piece of cake.Ìý They will be revealing their own secrets around the estate to raise money for charity.

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A few weeks ago on Countryfile, Princess Anne repeated her suggestion that eating their meat could be a solution to the current horse welfare crisis. It's estimated that around 8,000 horsesÌýhave beenÌýabandoned or neglected across the UK in the past year. Tom Heap investigates whether eating more horse meat at home – or exporting it abroad – would give these animals more value and less chance of being discarded. As he discovers, it's a controversial idea and by no means a simple solution to the welfare problem. ÌýBut a High Street taste test, carried out by Tom, suggests that British people aren't as averse to eating horse as many of us might think.

Whitby Abbey, Whitby fish and chips, Captain Cook, Dracula - Whitby is recognised on the list of 75 Yorkshire icons for many things.Ìý Ellie is on the hunt for the highly precious Whitby jet. ÌýThis fossilised wood, found only along a 7 mile stretch of coastline around Whitby, gave rise to the town’s fame for making highly prized and valuable jewellery during the Victorian era. Men and women risked their lives to gather the raw material, and Ellie is finding out how dangerous that task was, before watching the skill involved in making the dull wood really shine.

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Adam Henson is meeting – and judging - the three finalists in the Outstanding Farmer of the Year category at the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú’s Food and Farming Awards.Ìý Steven Jack is a potato and carrot grower from Inverness-shire, Luke Hassel farms organic rare breed cattle near Bristol and Neil Darwent is a Somerset dairy farmer.Ìý You can find out who Adam chooses as the winner when the results and the full stories of the finalists are broadcast on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4 on Monday 5 May at 3pm.

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So what did take the top spot in the 75 Great Icons of Yorkshire? ÌýIt wasn’t whippets, flat caps, fish and chips, tea, the Dales, the Moors, or even Dickie Bird. ÌýÌýBut we will give you a clue – it’s a foodie favourite and Matt previously lost to Ellie in a contest to cook the perfect one of these.Ìý However, he’s having another go at trying to improve his skills – by adding chocolate!