North Yorkshire is an administrative county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. It is divided into the district councils of Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby. York used to be part of it, but is now part of the independent county of York.

Contained within its boundaries are the North York Moors and most of the Yorkshire Dales, two of eleven areas of countryside within England and Wales to be officially designated as a National Park.

Towns and villages

• Borrowby
• Catterick, Catterick Bridge
• Dalton, Richmond, North Yorkshire, Dalton, Sowerby, North Yorkshire
• Easingwold, Embsay
• Filey
• Giggleswick, Great Ayton
• Harrogate, Hebden, Helmsley, Helperby, Horton-in-Ribblesdale
• Ingleton
• Kettlewell, Kirkbymoorside, Knaresborough
• Leyburn, Linton, Long Marston, Lund
• Malham, Marton, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, Marton, Pickering, North Yorkshire, Masham, Middleham
• Newbiggin, Askrigg, North Yorkshire, Newbiggin, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, Northallerton
• Osmotherley
• Ravenscar, Richmond, Rievaulx, Ripon, Robin Hood's Bay
• Scarborough, Selby, Settle, Skipton, Sowerby, Stokesley
• Tadcaster, Thirsk
• Whitby

Places of interest

• Ampleforth College
• Bolton Abbey
• Byland Abbey - English Heritage
• Castle Bolton
• Catterick Camp
• Drax
• Duncombe Park stately home
• Fountains Abbey
• Helmsley Castle - EH
• Malham Cove
• Mount Grace Priory - EH
• North Yorkshire Moors Railway
• Rievaulx Abbey - EH
• Roman Road
• Shandy Hall - stately home
• Studley Royal Water Gardens
• Whitby Abbey

External links

• North Yorkshire -- http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/