Harrogate (borough)

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Harrogate District
Shown within North Yorkshire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	Yorkshire and the Humber
Admin. County:	North Yorkshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 11th 1,309.13 km²
Admin. HQ:	Harrogate
ONS code:	36UD
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 105th 155,300 119 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.4% White
Politics
Harrogate Borough Council http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	David Curry, Anne McIntosh, Phil Willis

Harrogate is a local government district and borough of North Yorkshire, England. Its council is based in the town of Harrogate but it also includes surrounding towns and villages.

The district was formed on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the Masham and Wath rural districts, and part of Thirsk Rural District, from the North Riding of Yorkshire, along with the boroughs of Harrogate and the city of Ripon, the Knaresborough urban district, Nidderdale Rural District, Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rural District, part of Wetherby Rural District and part of Wharfedale Rural District, all in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

On April 1, 1996 the parishes of Nether Poppleton, Upper Poppleton, Hessay and Rufforth were transferred from the district to become part of the new York unitary authority. According to the 2001 census these parishes had a population of 5,169.

[edit] Towns and dales

• Harrogate
• Knaresborough
• Ripon
• Aldborough
• Boroughbridge
• Masham
• Pateley Bridge
• Nidderdale
• Wensleydale
• Wharfedale

[edit] Historical sites

• Aldborough Roman Museum
• Fountains Abbey
• Ripon Cathedral
• Knaresborough Castle
• Ripley Castle
• Spofforth Castle
• Marston Moor
• Devil's Arrows