Malton is a market community, civil parish as well as electoral ward in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the community is the place of the offices of Ryedale District Council as well as has a population of around 13,000 individuals, determined for both the civil church and also the selecting ward at the 2011 Census as 4,888. It is located to the north of the River Derwent which creates the historic boundary between the North and also East Ridings of Yorkshire. Encountering Malton on the other side of the Derwent is Norton. The Karro Food Group (formerly called Malton Bacon Factory), Malton bus station as well as Malton railway station lie in Norton-on-Derwent. Malton is the town's industrial as well as retail centre. In the community centre there are tiny typical independent shops as well as high road names. The market place has recently come to be a meeting area with a number of coffee shop as well as cafés opening all the time to match the general public houses. Malton was voted one of the best locations to live in Britain by The Sunday Times in both the 2017 and 2018 listings.