by A. H. Smith.
This volume covers an administrative area the boundaries of which remained virtually unchanged from Viking times until the late twentieth century. From 1974 until 1997 the East Riding was partitioned between the two non- Metropolitan Counties of North Yorkshire and of Humberside, but the latest reorganization has placed most of the area in East Yorkshire. The City of York has been transferred to North Yorkshire, but some places now within that city but formerly in Ainsty Wapentake are discussed in Part 4 of The Place‑Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. An end-pocket contains a county map (showing boundaries of wapentakes and townships) and six distribution maps (locating hill, marshland and woodland place‑names and names containing various English and Scandinavian elements).
ISBN: 0 521049 07 5. lx + 351 pp. 7 maps. First published 1937.
