Tadcaster
Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish in the Selby area of North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) eastern 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 about 10 miles (16 km) 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 western electoral wards. The mixed population of Tadcaster East and Tadcaster West in 2004 was 7,280, 3,800 in Tadcaster East and 3,480 in Tadcaster West (resource: Workplace for National Statistics). The local authority is Selby District Council. Tadcaster offered its name to a much bigger country district council, Tadcaster Rural Area and also various other management areas. This may lead to confusion when contrasting the dimension as well as extent of the present community with details for earlier periods. For example, the population in 1911 of the Tadcaster sub-district was 6831 compared with that of the Tadcaster Registration Area, 32052 (resource: A Vision of Britain with time).