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List of wapentakes in Yorkshire

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This is a list of wapentakes in Yorkshire.

 

1. Gilling West
2. Hang West
3. Gilling East
4. Hang East
5. Allertonshire
6. Halikeld
7. Langbaurgh West

 
Wapentakes
Wapentakes
 

8. Birdforth
9. Bulmer
10. Ryedale
11. Langbaurgh East
12. Whitby Strand
13. Pickering Lythe

 

Ainsty and the City of York

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Wapentakes
Wapentakes

As York acted as the capital of Yorkshire and it is right in the centre at the junction of the three ridings, it (along with the wapentake of Ainsty) had its own neutral area, which was not part of any of the three ridings.