Yorkshire A to Y
Gazetteer
Harrogate former district — part of 
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Harrogate Borough was one of the seven now-abolished large district authorities which have been merged into a unitary authority of North Yorkshire.The Harrogate district covered over 505 square miles of the area now run by North Yorkshire Council, the unitary authority the Government has created from the former County Council which covers a massive area of around 3,085 square miles and more than 600 towns and villages.
Much of the western half of this district was made up of the hills and reservoir-filled valleys of the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty while in the east it stretched as far as the Rivers Swale and Ouse in the Vale of York.
The administrative centre was Harrogate and the wide area included a few smaller towns, dozens of villages and also a city — Ripon, which is historically the second city of Yorkshire.
The district population of over 160,000 was the largest population among the districts of North Yorkshire abolished in 2023.
To view our gazetteer of places across all the new North Yorkshire Council unitary authority see
NORTH YORKSHIREPlaces in the Harrogate district were:
Aldborough Aldfield Arkendale Asenby Askwith Baldersby Baldersby St James Beckwithshaw Bickerton Bilton Bilton in Ainsty Birstwith Bishop Monkton Bishop Thornton Blubberhouses
Boroughbridge
Brearton Burnt Yates Burton Leonard Cattal Coneythorpe Copgrove Copt Hewick Cowthorpe Cundall Dacre Dacre Banks Darley Dishforth Farnham Farnley Fearby Ferrensby Flaxby Follifoot Galphay Glasshouses Goldsborough Great Ouseburn Green Hammerton Greenhow Hill Grewelthorpe Hampsthwaite Harrogate
Healey High Grantley Huby Hunsingore Hutton Conyers Kettlesing Killinghall Kirby Hill Kirkby Malzeard Kirkby Overblow Kirk Deighton Kirk Hammerton Knaresborough
Langthorpe Leathley Little Ouseburn Little Ribston Littlethorpe Lofthouse
Long Marston Lower Dunsforth Low Laithe Markington Marton-cum-Grafton Marton-le-Moor Masham
Melmerby Middlesmoor Minskip North Rigton North Stainley Norton-le-Clay Nun Monkton Pannal Pateley Bridge
Rainton Ramsgill Ripley Ripon
Risplith Roecliffe Sawley Scotton Sharow Sicklinghall Skelton on Ure South Stainley Spofforth Starbeck Staveley Summerbridge Thornthwaite Timble Tockwith Walshford Wath Weeton Whixley Wighill Wilsill WinksleyWe continue to add more villages to our A to Y gazetteer and the above may not yet list all places in Harrogate former district — part of
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