Tadcaster
Tadcaster is a market town as well as civil church in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) eastern of the Great North Road, 12 miles (19 km) north-east of Leeds, and also 10 miles (16 km) 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 local government objectives, the River Wharfe splits the community into eastern and western selecting wards. The consolidated population of Tadcaster East and Tadcaster West in 2004 was 7,280, 3,800 in Tadcaster East and 3,480 in Tadcaster West (source: Workplace for National Statistics). The regional authority is Selby District Council. Tadcaster gave its name to a much larger country district council, Tadcaster Rural Area and also other management locations. This may result in confusion when contrasting the size as well as extent of the current community with info for earlier periods. For instance, the population in 1911 of the Tadcaster sub-district was 6831 compared to that of the Tadcaster Registration Area, 32052 (source: A Vision of Britain with time).
