Allertonshire

Allertonshire or Allerton is a wapentake in the North Riding of Yorkshire and was formerly a liberty belonging to the Bishop of Durham.

The wapentake is named after Northallerton (historically "Allerton"), its chief town. The wapentake was once vested in the Bishop of Durham as a liberty, and remained an ecclesiastical peculiar belonging to Durham until the 19th century.

In 2011, Allertonshire had a population of 22,265.

The wapentake includes the ancient parishes of:

• Birkby
• Great Smeaton (Hornby township, part)^*
• Hutton Conyers (ex. par.)
• Kirby Sigston
• Kirklington (Howgrave township)^†
• Leake
• Northallerton
• North Otterington (except Thornton-le-Moor)^‡
• Osmotherley
• Pickhill (Holme township)^†
• Thornton-le-Street
• Sessay
• Sockburn (townships of Girsby and Over Dinsdale)^§
• Wath (Norton Conyers township)^†
• West Rounton

^*: Remainder of Hornby in Langbaurgh Wapentake; Great Smeaton township in East Gilling.
^†: Remainder in Hallikeld wapentake.
^‡: In Birdforth Wapentake.
^§: Remainder in County Durham.