North Yorkshire
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North Yorkshire is England’s largest county district, covering vast areas of countryside, coastline, and historic towns. It is home to two national parks: the Yorkshire Dales, with its limestone cliffs, valleys, and villages like Grassington and Hawes, and the North York Moors, with heather moorlands, forests, and dramatic coastal scenery around Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay. Market towns such as Harrogate, Ripon, and Northallerton combine Georgian and Victorian architecture with bustling centres, while Scarborough and Filey are traditional seaside resorts. The district also features Fountains Abbey, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Castle Howard, and the rolling Howardian Hills. Its landscapes range from rugged uplands to fertile plains, framed by rivers, dales, and a striking eastern coastline.
The local government for this district is: North Yorkshire Council (Unitary Authority).
Constituencies in North Yorkshire
- Harrogate and Knaresborough
- Richmond and Northallerton
- Scarborough and Whitby
- Selby
- Skipton and Ripon
- Thirsk and Malton
- Wetherby and Easingwold
A constituency is a specific geographical area that elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to represent them in the House of Commons. The United Kingdom is divided into 650 parliamentary constituencies, 54 of them are in Yorkshire and the Humber region. We have this list page for easy browsing of all UK parliamentary constituencies: List of Constituencies.
Wards in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is divided into 89 wards, listed below in alphabetical order.
- Aire Valley
- Aiskew & Leeming
- Amotherby & Ampleforth
- Appleton Roebuck & Church Fenton
- Barlby & Riccall
- Bedale
- Bentham & Ingleton
- Bilton & Nidd Gorge
- Bilton Grange & New Park
- Boroughbridge & Claro
- Brayton & Barlow
- Camblesforth & Carlton
- Castle
- Catterick Village & Brompton-on-Swale
- Cawood & Escrick
- Cayton
- Cliffe & North Duffield
- Coppice Valley & Duchy
- Danby & Mulgrave
- Derwent Valley & Moor
- Easingwold
- Eastfield
- Esk Valley & Coast
- Fairfax & Starbeck
- Falsgrave & Stepney
- Filey
- Glusburn, Cross Hills & Sutton-in-Craven
- Great Ayton
- Harlow & St. Georges
- Helmsley & Sinnington
- High Harrogate & Kingsley
- Hillside & Raskelf
- Hipswell & Colburn
- Huby & Tollerton
- Hunmanby & Sherburn
- Hutton Rudby & Osmotherley
- Killinghall, Hampsthwaite & Saltergate
- Kirkbymoorside & Dales
- Knaresborough East
- Knaresborough West
- Leyburn & Middleham
- Malton
- Masham & Fountains
- Mid Craven
- Monk Fryston & South Milford
- Morton-on-Swale & Appleton Wiske
- Newby
- North Richmondshire
- Northallerton North & Brompton
- Northallerton South
- Northstead
- Norton
- Oatlands & Pannal
- Osgoldcross
- Ouseburn
- Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale
- Pickering
- Richmond
- Ripon Minster & Moorside
- Ripon Ure Bank & Spa
- Romanby
- Scalby & the Coast
- Scotton & Lower Wensleydale
- Seamer
- Selby East
- Selby West
- Settle & Penyghent
- Sherburn in Elmet
- Sheriff Hutton & Derwent
- Skipton East & South
- Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby
- Skipton West & West Craven
- Sowerby & Topcliffe
- Spofforth with Lower Wharfedale & Tockwith
- Stokesley
- Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone
- Tadcaster
- Thirsk
- Thornton Dale & Wolds
- Thorpe Willoughby & Hambleton
- Upper Dales
- Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate
- Washburn & Birstwith
- Wathvale & Bishop Monkton
- Weaponness & Ramshill
- Wharfedale
- Whitby Streonshalh
- Whitby West
- Woodlands
North Yorkshire in International Geographies
In the International Territorial Levels (ITLs) hierarchy, North Yorkshire is one of ITLs Level 2 area that contains the following 2 ITLs Level 3 areas:
(ITL 1) Yorkshire and The Humber
(ITL 2) ⇒ North Yorkshire
(ITL 3) ⇒⇒ York ⁞ North Yorkshire
The International Territorial Levels are used by OECD member countries for statistical purposes to classify administrative areas. We have this listable page for easy browsing of ITL names and codes: International Territorial Levels.