Tadcaster
Tadcaster is a market town and also civil parish in the Selby area of North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) eastern of the Great North Road, 12 miles (19 km) north-east of Leeds, and 10 miles (16 kilometres) south-west of York. The River Wharfe joins the River Ouse about 10 miles (16 kilometres) downstream from it. Tadcaster is twinned with Saint-Chély-d'Apcher in France. For city government purposes, the River Wharfe splits the town into eastern and western electoral wards. The combined population of Tadcaster East as well as Tadcaster West in 2004 was 7,280, 3,800 in Tadcaster East as well as 3,480 in Tadcaster West (resource: Office for National Statistics). The local authority is Selby District Council. Tadcaster offered its name to a much larger country area council, Tadcaster Rural District as well as other management areas. This might cause complication when contrasting the size and also extent of the present town with information for earlier durations. For instance, the population in 1911 of the Tadcaster sub-district was 6831 compared to that of the Tadcaster Registration District, 32052 (source: A Vision of Britain with time).
