Yorkshire next season will make rare Championship visits to both Swansea and Bath where they will also play Somerset in a Norwich Union National League Division One match.

They last played a Championship game at Bath in 1974 while their last visit to Swansea was in 1985 when Yorkshire won by 34 runs but not before Matthew Maynard had blasted a century on his debut for Glamorgan.

Yorkshire begin the season by opening their Championship programme against Kent at Canterbury on April 25 - ten days' later than this year - and they conclude it by taking on Essex at Scarborough in a four-day match beginning on September 12.

Scarborough is given an extra coloured clothing fixture next season which means that, in all, North Marine Road will stage two Championship and three National League matches.

The Yorkshire Cricket Board are away to the Lancashire Cricket Board in the first round of what was formerly the NatWest Trophy but the draw for the fourth round, when the first class counties begin their involvement, will not be made until new sponsors have been announced.

With Lancashire having dropped into the Second Division of the National League there will be no floodlit matches between the Roses rivals next season but Yorkshire will meet Warwickshire under the Headingley lights on Monday, July 23.