North Riding of Yorkshire numerous wapentakes within each riding. Within the North Riding of Yorkshire there were thirteen wapentakes in total, as follows: North Riding of Yorkshire The North Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions (ridings) of the English county of Yorkshire, alongside the East and West ridings. From the Restoration it was used as a lieutenancy area, having been part of the Yorkshire lieutenancy previously. The three ridings were treated as three counties for many purposes, such as having separate quarter sessions. An administrative county was created with a county council in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888
Mid Kent (historic UK Parliament constituency) Mid Kent (historic UK Parliament constituency) Mid Kent was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Kent, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1868 general election, and abolished for the 1885 general election, when the three two-member constituencies (East Kent, Mid Kent and West Kent) were replaced by several new single-member constituencies: Ashford, Dartford, Faversham, Isle of Thanet, Medway, St Augustines, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge. A later single-member constituency called Mid Kent existed from 1983 to 1997. 1868-1885: The Lathe of Aylesford, and the