Northallerton County Town Market Town

Northallerton is the county town of the county of North Yorkshire and is the seat of The North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC). 

Set as it is between the Yorkshire Dales National Park to the west and the North York Moors National Park to the east the town has been a centre of communications for centuries.

The Railway arrived in the 1840s and Northallerton was on the old Great North Road.

Northallerton is about 230 miles (370 km) from London and 170 miles (270 km) from Edinburgh, 30 miles (50 km) from York and 22 miles (35 km) from Middlesbrough.