Ryedale
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| Ryedale District | |
|---|---|
 Shown within North Yorkshire | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | District |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Admin. County: | North Yorkshire |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 7th 1,506.59 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Malton |
| ONS code: | 36UF |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total () - Density | Ranked {{EnglishDistrictRank / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 99.4% White |
| Politics | |
 Ryedale District Council http://www.ryedale.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | |
| MP: | John Greenway |
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 April 1, 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.
The district lost about half its population in 1996, when an expanded City of York became a 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 [link] [link] 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.
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