Pickering Lythe

Pickering Lythe Wapentake shown within the North Riding and Yorkshire

Pickering Lythe is a wapentake of the North Riding of Yorkshire. Adjacent wapentakes are Whitby Strand to the north-east; Langbaurgh to the north; Ryedale to the west; and Buckrose and Dickering in the East Riding to the south. Pickering Lythe had a population of 87,635 in 2011.

The wapentake takes its name from the town of Pickering, which it contains.

It comprises the ancient parishes of:

• Allerston
• Brompton
• Cayton
• Ebberston
• Filey (part)^*
• Hutton Buscel
• Kirby Misperton
• Middleton
• Pickering
• Scalby
• Scarborough
• Seamer
• Sinnington (except Little Edstone)^†
• Wheeldale
• Wykeham

^*: Parly in Dickering wapentake (E. R.)
^†: In Ryedale.