North Yorkshire
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County
Region:	Yorkshire and the Humber
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 (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 12th 1,076,514 124 / km² Ranked 19th 572,970
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, John Greenway, John Grogan, William Hague, Alan Haselhurst, 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 county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. It is divided into the districts of Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby.

Contained within its boundaries 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 county was formed in 1974, and covers most of the lands of the traditional North Riding, as well as the northern half of the West Riding and the northern and eastern fringes of the traditional East Riding. York became a unitary authority independent of North Yorkshire on April 1, 1996, and at the same time Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees south of the river became part of North Yorkshire for ceremonial purposes, having been part of Cleveland from 1974 to 1996, and the North Riding before.

The ceremonial county borders those of East Riding of Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and Durham.

Towns and villages

• Arncliffe
• Borrowby
• Catterick, Catterick Bridge , Conistone
• Dalton, Richmond, North Yorkshire , Dalton, Sowerby, North Yorkshire
• Easingwold, Embsay
• Filey
• Giggleswick , Grassington, Great Ayton
• Harrogate, Hebden , Helmsley , Helperby , Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Horton-in-Ribblesdale
• Ingleton
• Kettlewell, Kilnsey, Kirkbymoorside , Knaresborough
• Leyburn , Linton , Long Marston , Lund
• Malham, Marton, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire , Marton, Pickering, North Yorkshire , Masham, Middleham
• Newbiggin, Askrigg, North Yorkshire , Newbiggin, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire , Northallerton
• Osmotherley
• Ravenscar , Richmond, Rievaulx , Ripon, Robin Hood's Bay
• Scarborough, Selby, Settle, Skipton, Sowerby, Starbotton , Stokesley
• Tadcaster, Thirsk
• Whitby

Places of interest

• Ampleforth College
• Bolton Abbey
• Byland Abbey - English Heritage
• Castle Bolton
• Catterick Camp
• Drax
• Duncombe Park stately home
• Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo
• Fountains Abbey
• Helmsley Castle - EH
• Lightwater Valley
• Malham Cove
• Mount Grace Priory - EH
• North Yorkshire Moors Railway
• Rievaulx Abbey - EH
• Roman Road
• Shandy Hall - stately home
• Studley Royal Water Gardens
• Wharram Percy
• Whitby Abbey