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
Richard Ridings Richard Ridings Richard Ridings (born 19 September 1958) is a British actor, and is best known for his portrayal of Alan Ashburn in the ITV television drama "Fat Friends", and for playing Bernard Green in the BBC1 comedy-drama "Common as Muck". He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He is the father of singer-songwriter Freya Ridings. Ridings was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. He has had roles in a series of other television series and feature films, among them "Clockwise", "The Ink Thief", "Red Dwarf", "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "Fierce Creatures" and