The moorland village that can't decide if it's in Greater Manchester, Yorkshire or Lancashire

Identity can be a funny thing, as Dan Walker and Helen Skelton discovered last week. The TV pair embarked on their new journey across the Pennines and it wasn't long before they landed themselves in hot water, YorkshireLive reports.

After beginning their journey on Bamford Edge in the Peak District, they travelled into Yorkshire via Snake Pass and a quick stay in a campsite. It was right at this point of the show, as they turned north, that fans thought Helen had made a mistake.

When describing the pair canoeing through a canal tunnel she said that the village of Diggle in Saddleworth was in Lancashire, much to the anger of Yorkshire loyalists. In actual fact it's in Greater Manchester and has been since the mid 70s.

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But after heading to the village on the outskirts of Oldham ourselves, it appears that even the locals can't decide. The Diggle confusion arises from the Local Government Act in 1972 which, from 1974, abolished administrative counties and redrew the borders in several areas. That meant large parts of Yorkshire were reclassified as Lancashire.

But the government at the time promised the change was purely administrative and that historic Yorkshire would still be considered as Yorkshire even if run by a council like Greater Manchester. And so a new form of the War of the Roses was born in the tap rooms and living rooms of Diggle, are we Yorkshire? Or are we Lancashire? And do we care?

One man who certainly does care is the landlord of The Diggle Hotel, Billy Buck. His stunning, 16th Century establishment sits atop a small hill at one end of the Standedge canal tunnel for which Diggle is well known - the tunnel is