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West Layton
West Layton is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with County Durham and a few miles west of Darlington. History The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Count Alan, and as having 16 villagers, a meadow, one fishery and two churches. Formerly in the wapentake of Gilling West and the parish of Hutton Magna, the village is now in Richmondshire in North Yorkshire. The name of Layton is historically recorded as ''Laston'', ''Lastun'' and ''Latton'', and means the ''town where the leeks are grown''. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included with the parish of East Layton. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) is the county council governing the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire; an area composing most of North Yorkshire in England. The council currently consists of 90 councillo ...
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Richmondshire
{{Infobox settlement , name = Richmondshire District , type = District , image_skyline = , imagesize = , image_caption = , image_blank_emblem= Richmondshire arms.png , blank_emblem_type = Coat of arms , image_map = Richmondshire UK locator map.svg , map_caption = Shown within North Yorkshire , mapsize = frameless , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = United Kingdom , subdivision_type1 = Constituent country , subdivision_name1 = England , subdivision_type2 = Region , subdivision_name2 = Yorkshire and the Humber , subdivision_type3 = Administrative county , subdivision_name3 = North Yorkshire , seat_type = Admin. HQ , seat = Richmond , government_type = Richmondshire District Council , leader_title = Leadership: , leader_name = Alternative – Sec.31 , leader_title1 = Executive: , leader_name1 = {{English district cont ...
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North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by national parks, including most of the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. It is one of four counties in England to hold the name Yorkshire; the three other counties are the East Riding of Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. North Yorkshire may also refer to a non-metropolitan county, which covers most of the ceremonial county's area () and population (a mid-2016 estimate by the ONS of 602,300), and is administered by North Yorkshire County Council. The non-metropolitan county does not include four areas of the ceremonial county: the City of York, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and the southern part of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, which are all administered by unitary authorities. The non-metropolitan county and the City of York are within the Yorkshire and the Humber region. Middlesbrough, Redcar ...
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Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament Constituency)
Richmond (Yorks) is a constituency in North Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since May 2015 by Rishi Sunak, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party. Constituency profile The constituency presents itself as a safe seat for the Conservative Party, which held it continuously since 1910 (if including the 11 years by the allied Unionist Party from 1918), and in the 2010 general election, Richmond produced the largest numerical and percentage majority for a Conservative, 62.8% of the vote. The Conservative MP and one-time Party leader William Hague held the seat from a by-election in 1989 until he retired from the Commons in 2015. He had held the posts of Leader of the Opposition (1997–2001), Foreign Secretary (2010–2014) and Leader of the House of Commons (2014–2015). His successor Rishi Sunak served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from February 2020 to July 2022 and as Prime Minister fr ...
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