Tadcaster
Tadcaster is a market town and also civil parish in the Selby area of North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) east of the Great North Road, 12 miles (19 kilometres) north-east of Leeds, and also 10 miles (16 kilometres) south-west of York. The River Wharfe joins the River Ouse regarding 10 miles (16 kilometres) downstream from it. Tadcaster is twinned with Saint-Chély-d'Apcher in France. For local government purposes, the River Wharfe divides the town into eastern and also western selecting wards. The consolidated population of Tadcaster East and also Tadcaster West in 2004 was 7,280, 3,800 in Tadcaster East and also 3,480 in Tadcaster West (resource: Workplace for National Statistics). The neighborhood authority is Selby District Council. Tadcaster gave its name to a much larger country area council, Tadcaster Rural District as well as various other administrative locations. This may bring about complication when contrasting the size and also extent of the existing town with details for earlier periods. As an example, the population in 1911 of the Tadcaster sub-district was 6831 compared to that of the Tadcaster Registration Area, 32052 (resource: A Vision of Britain through time).
