Talk:List of places in Yorkshire

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As Yorkshire without any kind of prefix or addition (eg West Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber) has only ever meant the historic and geographic county this list's only purpose can be to list all the places in that original county. Mickleton, County Durham may have County Durham in its title but it is south of the River Tees and therefore in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The fact that Wikipedia convention is to use ceremonial counties in the titles of pages is no reason to exclude a village within the geographic boundaries of Yorkshire from this list. The same would go for any settlements administered by the Lancashire, Greater Manchester or Cumbria authorities. Yorkshire Phoenix 15:21, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I can understand the logic behind this. However Wikipedia is worldwide and therefore this list may cause confusion for many people from both the UK and overseas, who use it to locate places and then refer to it in error. Such as as those making up holiday visiting plans, or references to counties in which their friend or releatives live. The status of these towns having once been in Yorkshire is only of interest to a minority of people, usually Yorkshire folk and their descendants. I am interested, as a Yorkshireman, but I also like to see places listed in their actual currently designated county. Perhaps it may be more useful if this article was renamed as 'Historic Yorkshire place names' to differentiate it from the current local government / county designations? Richard Harvey 15:41, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

In response to your comment: 'the status of these towns once having been in Yorkshire..', I must point out that technically, those towns atill are in Yorkshire in so far as I can make out. The only differnece today is that they are administered by councils whcih also cover area out side of Yorkshire...the ceremonial county borders being based on nothing but administrative districts and nothing about which area a place falls in. I must say that places which fall in any of the three ridings ought to be included here, as being part of the simple are that is Yorkshire. It would be possible to have a separate list or lists for the places which fall in the administrative districts which cover various parts of Yorkshire and beyond, but I do not feel this list ought to be limited to those regions which fall under the control of an arbrotary region with the word 'Yorkshire' in it's title. Evil Eye 19:12, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

As there is and never has been a Yorkshire County Council, or a ceremonial county by that name, Yorkshire on its own can only ever mean the historic county. Given that Mickleton, County Durham is run by Durham County Council but is in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire is explained on Mickleton's own page, I don't see how it being included in this list could cause any problems. If the context of the list were to be changed to show places in North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the unitary authorities within or associated with them then that would be a major change from the stated title List of places in Yorkshire and the name would have to be changed to explain this. To do so, however, I feel would be to the detriment of Yorkshire's presence. Yorkshire Phoenix 16:12, 3 July 2006 (UTC)