Why Yorkshire is the new Scotland!

I recently did an interview for the Single Titles website about my Fortune's Folly trilogy and the interviewer, Julie Bonello, asked me a particularly interesting question. (All her questions were interesting and thought provoking but this one especially caught my attention.)

It was this:

"The trilogy is set in the fictional Yorkshire village of Fortune's Folly. Regencies usually take place in London or Bath - what made you decide to create a fictional landscape in this particular British county?