Shown within North Yorkshire
Ryedale District Council
http://www.ryedale.gov.uk/

Ryedale District
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 / km²
Ethnicity:	99.4% White
Politics
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MP:	John Greenway

Ryedale is a local government district in North Yorkshire in England. Settlements include Pickering, Helmsley, Malton, and Norton-on-Derwent.

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 [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19950610_en_2.htm#end 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.

Local government districts of North Yorkshire | Shire districts

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