North Yorkshire

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**North Yorkshire**

Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin	1974
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber (part of ceremonial county in North East)
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 1st 8,654 km² Ranked 1st 8,038 km²
Admin HQ	Northallerton
ISO 3166-2	GB-NYK
ONS code	36
NUTS 3	UKE22
Demographics
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 16th 1,045,000 121 / km² Ranked 20th 582,000
Ethnicity	97.9% White 1.0% S.Asian
Politics
North Yorkshire County Council http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/
Executive	Conservative
Members of Parliament	Vera Baird Hugh Bayley Stuart Bell David Curry Robert Goodwill John Greenway John Grogan William Hague Ashok Kumar Anne McIntosh Dari Taylor Phil Willis
Districts
Selby Harrogate Craven Richmondshire Hambleton Ryedale Scarborough City of York (Unitary) Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary) Middlesbrough (Unitary) Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary) (the part south of the Tees)

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county, located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county in that region and also partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 ^[1] it covers an area of 8,654 km², making it the largest county in England.

1 Divisions and environs
2 Physical features
3 History
4 Economy
5 Towns and villages
6 Places of interest
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Divisions and environs

The area under the control of the county council, or shire county, is divided into a number of local government districts; they are Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby. ^[2]

York, Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland are unitary authority boroughs which form part of the ceremonial county for various functions such as the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, but do not come under county council control. Uniquely for a district in England, Stockton-on-Tees is split between North Yorkshire and County Durham for this purpose. Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees and Redcar and Cleveland boroughs form part of the North East England region. ^[3]

The area including the unitary authorities, or ceremonial county, borders East Riding of Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and County Durham.

[edit] Physical features

Within North Yorkshire are the North York Moors and most of the Yorkshire Dales; two of eleven areas of countryside within England and Wales to be officially designated as a national park. The highest point is Whernside, on the Cumbrian border, at 2414 feet (736 metres).

[edit] History

North Yorkshire was formed on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, and covers most of the lands of the historic North Riding, as well as the northern half of the West Riding, the northern and eastern fringes of the East Riding of Yorkshire and the former county borough of York.

York became a unitary authority independent of North Yorkshire on 1 April 1996, ^[4] and at the same time Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and areas of Stockton-on-Tees south of the river became part of North Yorkshire for ceremonial purposes, having been part of Cleveland from 1974 to 1996.

[edit] Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of North Yorkshire at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added^[5]	Agriculture^[6]	Industry^[7]	Services^[8]
1995	7,278	478	2,181	4,618
2000	9,570	354	2,549	6,667
2003	11,695	390	3,025	8,281

[edit] Towns and villages

v • d • e

Part of a series of articles on
Yorkshire

County Town: York

The ridings:

East • North • West

Ceremonial counties

East Riding of Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

Further information

Yorkshire Day 1 August

Arncliffe, Ampleforth, Appleton-le-Moors
Bedale, Bellerby, Boroughbridge, Borrowby, Botton Village, Brompton, Buckden, Buttercrambe,
Castleton, Catterick, Catterick Garrison, Cawood, Clapham,Conistone, Coxwold
Dalton (Hambleton), Dalton (Richmondshire), Danby Wiske
Easby, Easingwold, Egton, Egton Bridge, Embsay
Filey
Gargrave, Giggleswick, Glasshouses, Goathland, Grassington, Great Ayton, Grosmont
Harrogate, Hawes, Haxby, Hebden, Helmsley, Helperby, Horton in Ribblesdale, Hunmanby, Huntington
Ingleton
Kettlewell, Kilnsey, Kirkbymoorside, Knaresborough
Leyburn, Linton, Litton, Long Marston, Lund
Malham, Malton, Masham, Marske-by-the-Sea, Middleham, Middlesbrough, Muker
New Marske, Northallerton, Norton-on-Derwent
Osmotherley
Pateley Bridge, Pickering
Ravenscar, Redcar, Reeth, Richmond, Rievaulx, Ripon, Robin Hood's Bay, Romanby
Scarborough, Scawton, Scorton, Scruton, Selby, Settle, Sheriff Hutton, Sicklinghall, Skipton, Sowerby, Starbotton, Stockton-on-the-Forest, Stokesley, Streetlam, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe
Tadcaster, Thirsk, Thornaby-on-Tees, Thornton-le-Beans, Thornton-le-Dale, Thornton Steward, Thrintoft, Thwaite
Wass, Welburn, Whitley, Whitby
Yafforth,Yarm, York

Italicised locations lie outside the current North Yorkshire shire county.

[edit] Places of interest

Bolton Abbey

[edit] References

^ Arnold-Baker, C., Local Government Act 1972, (1973)
^ North Yorkshire County Council - Transport map of shire county divided into districts
^ North East Assembly - List of local authorities and members
^ OPSI - The North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995
^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
^ includes hunting and forestry
^ includes energy and construction
^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured