Place:Allerton Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

For a definition of "wapentake", see the article entitled Hundred (county division) in Wikipedia.

Wapentakes, the Old Norse form of the Anglo-Saxon "hundred", are dealt with in Section 1.4, but Sections 1.1 (Hundred courts) and 1.2 (Administrative functions) deal with the concept and purposes of wapentakes along with those of "hundreds" used in English counties further south.

Allerton Wapentake was very much in the centre of the North Riding of Yorkshire, but it is not contiguous. The parishes of High Worsall, West Rounton and Sessay are separated from the main body of the wapentake. In the north, the parish of Sockburn is in County Durham.

On the north and west it had boundaries with Gilling East, Gilling West and Langbargh Wapentakes plus a small part of County Durham. On the east and south its boundaries were with Bulmer.