After more than 200 years as a broadsheet, the North Yorkshire UK's Gazette & Herald has switched to tabloid format, HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk reported Tuesday.

Launched in 1790 as the York Herald and County Advertiser, The Gazette & Herald is owned by Newsquest, the UK arm of U.S. newspaper publishing company Gannett Co., Inc. The paper's final broadsheet edition was printed on November 19.

Following the switch, sales figures from the first week as a tabloid show a 7.1 percent rise, according to HoldtheFrontPage.

"The aim was to modernise the look without losing the unique local feel of the paper," Chris Buxton, the paper's editor, told HoldtheFrontPage.