From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 (2006 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 15th 1,061,300 123 / km² Ranked 19th 591,600
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 (L) Hugh Bayley (L) Stuart Bell (L) David Curry (C) Robert Goodwill (C) John Greenway (C) John Grogan (L) William Hague (C) Ashok Kumar (L) Anne McIntosh (C) Dari Taylor (L) Phil Willis (LD)
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.

Contents 1 Divisions and environs 2 Physical features 3 History 4 Economy 5 Education 5.1 GCSE results by district council (%) 6 Towns and villages 7 Places of interest 8 References 9 External links

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]

The Department for Communities and Local Government did consider reorganising North Yorkshire County Council's administrative structure by abolishing the seven district councils and the county council to create a North Yorkshire unitary authority. The changes were planned to be implemented no later than 1 April 2009.^[3][4] This was rejected on 25 July 2007 so the County Council and District Council structure will remain.^[5]

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. ^[6]

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

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 m).

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, ^[7] 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.

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[8]	Agriculture[9]	Industry[10]	Services[11]
1995	7,278	478	2,181	4,618
2000	9,570	354	2,549	6,667
2003	11,695	390	3,025	8,281

The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. Specific concerns may be found on the talk page. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions.(December 2007)

North Yorkshire LEA has a mostly comprehensive education system with 42 state schools (not including sixth form colleges) and 12 independent schools, including Ampleforth College and Harrogate Ladies' College. However, the grammar schools outstrip the independent schools in academic performance.^{[citation needed]} North Yorkshire is a rural county, and public transport may not be up to scratch in many places, so reaching the secondary schools (mostly in larger towns) will be a struggle. Sixth-form provision varies with all except one school in Selby and Scarborough districts having no sixth form, although the other districts fare much better. The schools having no sixth forms in the rural areas tend to be much smaller schools in remote areas. Separate sixth form colleges can often perform far better than those attached to schools in all due respect. Skipton has virtually a fully selective education system with two single sex grammar schools and secondary modern schools. The Harrogate district has the largest school population by year, followed by Scarborough, with Richmondshire and Ryedale the smallest. School year sizes are either about 250 or 100 (in the rural areas), with the two largest schools in Northallerton and Scarborough. In England at GCSE on average, 45.8% of pupils gain 5 good GCSEs including English and Maths; for North Yorkshire's 7300 pupils taking GCSE at 16 it is 53.5% - the highest for a traditional county in the north of England. The Harrogate area performs much better than York at GCSE. The church schools, as elsewhere in England, also do well, notably St. Aidan's C of E High School, which gets the best results for a comprehensive in the county in 2006 with 89%, getting results similar to a grammar school. The next best is Harrogate Grammar School on 82% and the St John Fisher Catholic High School on 73%. The Manor C of E School in York also gets very good results (but doesn't have a sixth form). The three best schools at GCSE are in Harrogate. The worst by far is the Risedale Sports and Community College in Hipswell, next door to the Catterick Garrison. At A-level, the grammar schools not only do the best in North Yorkshire, but in the Yorkshire and Humber region as well, and most of the north of England. The A-Level results of 2006 placed Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton as the best school in the whole of Yorkshire, beating many prestigious independent schools. The top comprehensives at A level are the two sixth forms in Harrogate - the church schools and Harrogate Grammar School, producing fantastic results for comprehensives - better than Ampleforth College. Overall, North Yorkshire gets one of the highest A level averages in England, and again the best in the north of England for traditional counties. York also performs above the England average. The independent Bootham School in York gets better results than all except one of the grammar schools, and York's Huntington School gets better A level marks than Harrogate's excellent comprehensives (yet produces unremarkable GCSE results).

2006 GCSE results showing proportion of pupils gaining 5 grades A-C including English and Maths.

• Harrogate 63.6
• Craven 58.5
• Hambleton 57.3
• Ryedale 50.0
• (City of York Unitary Authority 48.8)
• Richmondshire 47.4
• Scarborough 45.2
• Selby 43.0

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

Italicised locations lie outside the current North Yorkshire shire county.

• Ampleforth College
• Bolton Abbey
• Byland Abbey - English Heritage (EH)
• Bolton Castle
• Catterick Garrison
• Cleveland Hills
• Drax
• Duncombe Park stately home
• Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
• Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo
• Fountains Abbey
• Castle Howard and the Howardian Hills
• Helmsley Castle - EH
• Lightwater Valley
• Malham Cove
• Middleham Castle
• Mount Grace Priory - EH
• North Yorkshire Moors Railway
• Ormesby Hall - Palladian Mansion
• Rievaulx Abbey - EH
• Selby Abbey
• Shandy Hall - stately home
• Skipton Castle
• Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications - EH
• Studley Royal Park
• Wharram Percy
• Whitby Abbey
• Yorkshire Air Museum

1. ^ Arnold-Baker, C., Local Government Act 1972, (1973)
2. ^ North Yorkshire County Council - Transport map of shire county divided into districts
3. ^ North Yorkshire County Council - New Council for North Yorkshire
4. ^ Communities and Local Government - Proposals for future unitary structures: Stakeholder consultation
5. ^ Decision letter: North Yorkshire County Council
6. ^ North East Assembly - List of local authorities and members
7. ^ OPSI - The North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995
8. ^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
9. ^ includes hunting and forestry
10. ^ includes energy and construction
11. ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

• North Yorkshire Guide Guide from NorthYorks.com
• BBC North Yorkshire North Yorkshire features, videos & pics from the BBC

v • d • e Yorkshire
Counties of the Lieutenancies Act 1997	East Riding of Yorkshire • North Yorkshire • South Yorkshire • West Yorkshire • List of places in Yorkshire
History	History of Yorkshire • History of local government in Yorkshire • East Riding of Yorkshire • North Riding of Yorkshire • West Riding of Yorkshire
Culture and heritage	Culture of Yorkshire • Yorkshire dialect and accent • On Ilkla Moor Baht'at • List of Yorkshire people • White Rose of York • Flags and symbols of Yorkshire • Yorkshire Day

v • d • e Districts of Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley • Bradford • Calderdale • Craven • Doncaster • East Riding of Yorkshire • Hambleton • Harrogate • Hull • Kirklees • Leeds • North Lincolnshire • North East Lincolnshire • Richmondshire • Rotherham • Ryedale • Scarborough • Selby • Sheffield • Wakefield • York Counties with multiple districts: North Yorkshire - South Yorkshire - West Yorkshire

v • d • e Counties of England
Current (since 1998)	Bedfordshire • Berkshire • City of Bristol • Buckinghamshire • Cambridgeshire • Cheshire • Cornwall • Cumbria • Derbyshire • Devon • Dorset • Durham • East Riding of Yorkshire • East Sussex • Essex • Gloucestershire • Greater London • Greater Manchester • Hampshire • Herefordshire • Hertfordshire • Isle of Wight • Kent • Lancashire • Leicestershire • Lincolnshire • City of London • Merseyside • Norfolk • Northamptonshire • Northumberland • North Yorkshire • Nottinghamshire • Oxfordshire • Rutland • Shropshire • Somerset • South Yorkshire • Staffordshire • Suffolk • Surrey • Tyne and Wear • Warwickshire • West Midlands • West Sussex • West Yorkshire • Wiltshire • Worcestershire
Former (1889-1998)	Avon (1974-1996) • Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely (1965-1974) • Cleveland (1974-1996) • Hereford and Worcester (1974-1998) • Humberside (1974-1996) • Huntingdon and Peterborough (1965-1974) • London (1889-1965)
Ancient (before 1889)	Bedfordshire • Berkshire • Buckinghamshire • Cambridgeshire • Cheshire • Cornwall • Cumberland • Derbyshire • Devon • Dorset • Durham • Essex • Gloucestershire • Hampshire • Herefordshire • Hertfordshire • Huntingdonshire • Kent • Lancashire • Leicestershire • Lincolnshire • Middlesex • Monmouthshire • Norfolk • Northamptonshire • Northumberland • Nottinghamshire • Oxfordshire • Rutland • Shropshire • Somerset • Staffordshire • Suffolk • Surrey • Sussex • Warwickshire • Westmorland • Wiltshire • Worcestershire • Yorkshire