Allertonshire

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Allertonshire was a wapentake and liberty in the North Riding of Yorkshire in England.

It was named after Northallerton, the county town of the North Riding, and was historically associated with the Bishop of Durham, being an ecclesiastical peculiar until the 19th century.

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