Coordinates: 54°08′20″N 0°04′44″W / 54.139°N 0.079°W
| Ryedale District | |
 Shown within North Yorkshire |
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| Geography | |
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| Status: | District |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Admin. County: | North Yorkshire |
| Area: Total: |
Ranked 11th 1507 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Malton |
| ONS code: | 36UF |
| Demographics | |
| Population: Total (2008 est.): Density: |
Ranked 316th 53,500 36 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 99.4% White |
| Politics | |
| Ryedale District Council http://www.ryedale.gov.uk/ |
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| Leadership: | Alternative - Sec. 31 |
| Executive: | TBA (council NOC) |
| MPs: | John Greenway |
Ryedale is a non-metropolitan district of the shire county of North Yorkshire in England. Settlements include Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside, Malton, Norton-on-Derwent, Pickering, and Terrington.
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Derivation of name
The name refers to the River Rye and was previously used for the Ryedale wapentake of Yorkshire, that covered roughly the same area. The current district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of urban district of Norton and Norton Rural District, from the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, along with the urban districts of Malton and Pickering with Flaxton Rural District, Helmsley Rural District, Kirkbymoorside Rural District, Malton Rural District and Pickering Rural District, all from the North Riding of Yorkshire.
York Unitary Authority
The district lost about half its population in 1996, when an expanded City of York became an unitary authority - specifically the parishes of Clifton Without, Earswick, Haxby, Heworth Without, Holtby, Huntington, Murton, New Earswick, Osbaldwick, Rawcliffe, Skelton, Stockton-on-the-Forest, Strensall, Towthorpe, and Wigginton [1] [2] According to the 2001 census these parishes combined had a population of 50,163, compared to the population of the rump Ryedale district of 50,872.
Famous residents
In recent years the national spotlight has been shining on Ryedale after producing Miss England 2007, Georgia Horsley (of Norton on Derwent), and teenage chart-topping Indie-pop band One Night Only (of Helmsley).
Demographics
For all districts in the Yorkshire and the Humber region, Ryedale has the lowest rate of teenage pregnancy.
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