Editing Riding (division) (section)

===Yorkshire=== <!--Referenced from article [[Yorkshire]] -->

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The ancient county of [[Yorkshire]] had three ridings,<ref name="entymologyriding"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://yorkshireridingssociety.org.uk/ |title= The Yorkshire Ridings |publisher=The Yorkshire Ridings Society |access-date = 2017-12-03}}</ref><ref>[http://www.northeastengland.talktalk.net/About_Yorkshire.htm About Yorkshire – The Yorkshire Ridings]. URL accessed 21 April 2007.</ref> [[North Riding of Yorkshire|North]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire|West]] and [[East Riding of Yorkshire|East]], originally each subdivided into [[wapentake]]s which were created by the Vikings. Note that the bounds of the City of York lay outside all the ridings to emphasise its political impartiality.

The Yorkshire ridings were in many ways treated as separate administrative counties, having had separate [[quarter session]]s and also separate [[Lord-lieutenant|lieutenancies]] since the [[English Restoration|Restoration]]. This practice was followed by the ''[[Local Government Act 1888]]'', which made each of the three ridings an [[administrative counties of England|administrative county]] with an elected county council.  These county councils, along with the ancient lieutenancies, were abolished in 1974 under the ''[[Local Government Act 1972]]''.

A local government area, [[East Riding of Yorkshire]], was created in 1996, but this does not cover the entire area of the former East Riding and includes areas from the historical West Riding.

According to the 12th century compilation known as the ''[[Leges Edwardi Confessoris]]'', the riding was the third part of a county ({{Lang|la|provincia}}); to it causes were brought which could not be determined in the wapentake, and a matter which could not be determined in the riding was brought into the court of the shire.<ref name=EB1911/>

Riding courts were held after the [[Norman Conquest]]. A charter which [[Henry I of England|Henry I]] granted to the Church of St Peters at York mentions {{Lang|enm|wapentacmot}}'','' {{Lang|enm|'''triding'''mot}} and {{Lang|enm|shiresmot}} (-mot designates popular assemblies), and exemptions from suit to the {{Lang|enm|thriding}} or riding are described in the charters of the Norman kings. As yet, however, the jurisdiction and functions of these courts have not been ascertained. It seems probable from the silence of the records that they had already fallen into disuse early in the 13th century.<ref name=EB1911/>

Although no longer having any administrative role, the ridings of Yorkshire still play a part as cultural entities – they are used for the names of a number of groups and organisations and some people in Yorkshire associate themselves with one riding or another (see [[West Riding of Yorkshire#Current usage|current usage of West Riding of Yorkshire]]). [[Winifred Holtby]]'s 1936 novel ''[[South Riding (novel)|South Riding]]'' and its adaptations were set in a fictional fourth riding. The title of the novel trilogy ''Red Riding'' by [[David Peace]], set in Yorkshire, is a play on the word.

The [[Yorkshire Ridings Society]] calls for wider recognition of the historic borders of Yorkshire.