
Yorkshire A to Y
Gazetteer
North Yorkshire unitary authority area X
The North Yorkshire authority covers around 3,085 square miles and stretches around 92 miles from west to east.
The area continues to be considerably larger than the pre-1974 North Riding of Yorkshire as North Yorkshire incorporated large parts of the West Riding and some of the East Riding, although some northern fringes were lost to what are now Durham County, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland unitary authorities.
The Government has also proposed having an elected mayor to cover all these places in the forthcoming North Yorkshire unitary authority plus also those in the City of

We continue to maintain our district indexes to help make searches for places easier to manage (see links at foot of page).
Find out more about the North Yorkshire unitary authority area.
Our Gazetteer list here only includes places in the administrative county of North Yorkshire, the new unitary authority. The wider ceremonial county of North Yorkshire includes places in




























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































North Yorkshire 

unitary authority
With more than 600 towns and villages within the new unitary authority, we continue to maintain our gazetteer indexes for each of the former districts to help you more easily manage your search for places:







We continue to add more villages to our A to Y gazetteer and the above may not yet list all places in North Yorkshire unitary authority area