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'''Allertonshire''' or '''Allerton''' is a [[wapentake]] in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire|North Riding]] of [[Yorkshire]] and was formerly a liberty belonging to the [[Bishop of Durham]]. | '''Allertonshire''' or '''Allerton''' is a [[wapentake]] in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire|North Riding]] of [[Yorkshire]] and was formerly a liberty belonging to the [[Bishop of Durham]]. | ||
Revision as of 15:54, 20 October 2019
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 (part)§
- 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.
§: Part of Hutton Sessay in Birdforth wapentake.
‖: Remainder in County Durham.
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East Riding: Buckrose • Dickering • Harthill • Holderness • Howdenshire • Ouse and Derwent • North Riding: Allertonshire • Birdforth • Bulmer • East Gilling • Hallikeld • Hang East • Hang West • Langbaurgh • Pickering Lythe • Ryedale • West Gilling • Whitby Strand • West Riding: Agbrigg and Morley (Agbrigg, Morley) • Ainsty • Barkston Ash • Claro • Osgoldcross • Skyrack • Staincliffe and Ewcross (Staincliffe, Ewcross) • Staincross • Strafforth and Tickhill |
