Hambleton

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Hambleton District
Shown within North Yorkshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	Yorkshire and the Humber
Shire county:	North Yorkshire
Historic county:	Yorkshire (North Riding)
Area: - Total	Ranked 10th 1,311.17 km²
Admin. HQ:	Northallerton
ONS code:	36UC
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 275th 85,000 65 / km²
Ethnicity:	99.2% White
Politics
Hambleton District Council http://www.hambleton.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	William Hague, Anne McIntosh

Hambleton is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England. The main town and administrative centre is Northallerton, and includes the market towns and major villages of Bedale, Thirsk, Great Ayton, Stokesley and Easingwold.

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the urban district of Northallerton with Bedale Rural District, Easingwold Rural District, Northallerton Rural District, and part of Thirsk Rural District and Croft Rural District, all in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

The district is named after the Hambleton Hills, part of the North York Moors National Park, on the eastern edge of the district. This area is the subject of a national habitat protection scheme as articulated in the United Kingdom's Biodiversity Action Plan.

[edit] Energy policy

In May 2006, a report commissioned by British Gas [1] showed that housing in Hambleton produced the 8th highest average carbon emissions in the country at 7,242 kg of carbon dioxide per dwelling.

See also: Energy efficiency in British housing.