It has been revealed that a brand new version of the board game Monopoly is to be based on the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.

Advance to Stafflex, The Mount School, Huddersfield Lawn Tennis and Squash Club, or even the Harold Wilson Statue - will you owe rent or reap the rewards? Scarborough's famous attractions feature on a new special edition of the classic board game Monopoly. Item: 305105790081 Monopoly Leeds Edition (Leeds United, Leeds Rhinos, Yorkshire CCC) - Complete. Take a trip to Leeds with this complete edition of the classic family game, Monopoly. Featuring three of the city's most beloved sports teams - Leeds United, Leeds Rhinos, and Yorkshire CCC - this version is sure to delight fans and newcomers alike. With iconic landmarks and locations from around the city, players can buy and sell their way to victory in this finance-themed game. The game is in excellent condition and comes complete with all pieces. Don't miss out on the chance to own this unique edition of Monopoly, perfect for family game night or as a gift for any sports or board game enthusiast. Take a trip to Leeds with this complete edition of the classic family game, Monopoly. Featuring three of the city's most beloved sports teams - Leeds United, Leeds Rhinos, and Yorkshire CCC - this version is sure to delight fans and newcomers alike. With iconic landmarks and locations from around the city, players can buy and sell their way to victory in this finance-themed game. The game is in excellent condition and comes complete with all pieces. Don't miss out on the chance to own this unique edition of Monopoly, perfect for family game night or as a gift for any sports or board game enthusiast. Leeds is a vibrant city with lots to discover and something for everyone to enjoy – from the award winning Royal Armories, to the gardens of Tropical World and magnificent stately homes like Harewood House. But now, manufacturers Winning Moves UK have said that the Yorkshire Dales is getting it’s own board and we are absolutely buzzing about it.In 1993 the company produced a special limited edition of the game when 500 sets were produced with all the squares named after Leeds locations. But more recently, new versions of the game have been released for places such as Leeds, Sheffield, Harrogate and more. Image: Winning Moves UK Just 500 copies of a board based around the city's streets and landmarks were produced in 1989 in aid of the Lord Mayor of Leeds charity appeal.

The game Monopoly owes its genesis to an American Quaker woman who believed in the common ownership of land. By 1935 when the Parker Brothers in Philadelphia acquired the rights to the game, it had become the embodiment of capitalist speculation. In 1935 Monopoly was first patented in the USA and Waddington's published a British edition based on London streets.

Live the life of a high flying trader in the fast paced world of real estate as you become a property magnate. Waddingtons were taken over by the US firm of Hasbro in the 1990s. Most of the firm’s archives reside at the West Yorkshire Archives Service and Abbey House. A LIMITED edition charity version of the world-famous Monopoly has proved a huge sell-out success for Leeds manufacturers Waddingtons. The 500 sets, using Leeds place names instead of London ones, were all snapped up within two hours of going on sale yesterday, leaving many people disappointed. Long queues had already formed outside the firm’s Rothwell premises when the doors opened at 8.45am. Board game company Winning Moves have released Monopoly: Scarborough Edition in time for Christmas. The original UK version of Monopoly was based on 1930s London where players passed properties of increasing value the further they travelled from the starting square. The pencil drawing was found many years later by a man called Charles Darrow, at the home of one of his friends. From this, he then created a game that he named Monopoly, before selling the game on to the publisher Parker Brothers. This game became a success and was played in a large amount of households. When asked in an interview for Germantown Bulletin “how he had managed to invent Monopoly out of thin air – a seeming slight of hand that had brought joy into so many households” he replyed “It’s a freak… Entirely unexpected and illogical”.

In 1935 Monopoly was first patented in the USA and Waddington's published a British edition based on London streets.This special limited edition based on Leeds was published by John Waddington Ltd., possibly to celebrate the centenary of the City of Leeds in 1993. John Waddington started off as a theatrical printer in Leeds in 1896 and the firm began printing playing cards in 1921. The game "Monopoly" owes its genesis to an American Quaker woman who believed in the common ownership of land. By 1935 when the Parker Bros in Philadelphia acquired the rights to the game, it had become the embodiment of capitalist speculation. The British rights to the game were acquired by the Leeds firm of Waddingtons in 1935 and the slightly bizarre choice of London streets was based on a flying visit to the capital by one of the firm's employees. Since then the game has been customised to many cities and institutions, including this Leeds edition. Waddington's are also reputed to have smuggled silk escape maps to British prisoners of war inside Monopoly sets. Waddingtons were taken over by the US firm of Hasbro in the 1990s. Monopoly: Leeds Private Edition is a 1989 version of the classic boardgame privately published through Waddingtons, the publishers of the standard UK edition of the game.Monopoly has evolved far beyond the confines of its box, though, expanding into new properties and themes and into completely different forms of entertainment. From its many variants to appeal to the residents of Yorkshire to living the game of Monopoly, here’s how the UK’s favourite board game has evolved into a cultural icon and an ever-appealing brand. Monopoly for the people of Yorkshire MONOPOLY, the great property trading board game, finds its home in the historical town of Huddersfield: from award-winning Victorian architecture to Iron Age monuments.

John Keen-Tomlinson from Winning Moves, said: “We are very excited by the challenge of putting this unique board for the Yorkshire Dales together.” Maidstone landed the honour of a customised Monopoly game after seeing off 24 other places across Europe to win the accolade and beating runner-up Chartres in France.And now, this is where we come in as game designers are asking for people from the area to help design the landmarks, playing pieces and customised cards that will be featured in the game.