Tadcaster is a market town as well as civil church 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 also 10 miles (16 km) 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 objectives, the River Wharfe splits the community right into eastern and also western selecting wards. The combined population of Tadcaster East and also Tadcaster West in 2004 was 7,280, 3,800 in Tadcaster East and 3,480 in Tadcaster West (source: Workplace for National Statistics). The local authority is Selby District Council. Tadcaster provided its name to a much bigger country district council, Tadcaster Rural Area and also other administrative areas. This might result in complication when comparing the dimension as well as degree of the existing community with details 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 via time).