Tadcaster
Tadcaster is a market town and also civil parish in the Selby area of North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) eastern of the Great North Road, 12 miles (19 kilometres) 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 city government purposes, the River Wharfe divides the town 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 also 3,480 in Tadcaster West (source: Workplace for National Statistics). The local authority is Selby District Council. Tadcaster provided its name to a much larger country district council, Tadcaster Rural Area and also various other administrative areas. This may bring about complication when comparing the dimension and extent of the present community with information for earlier durations. For instance, the population in 1911 of the Tadcaster sub-district was 6831 compared with that of the Tadcaster Registration Area, 32052 (resource: A Vision of Britain through time).