a parliamentary borough and market-town of England, capital of the North Riding of Yorkshire, on an affluent of the Whisk, 32 miles N.N.W. of York, and 225 N.N.W. of London. It consists of a principal street, broad and well paved, and numerous lanes diverging from it. The parish church is large, in the form of a cross, and has a square tower at the west end. There are also chapels belonging to Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, Baptists, and Quakers; and several schools and charitable institutions. One of the latter, called the Maison Dieu, was founded in 1476, and has since been rebuilt. Northallerton has a market-house near the centre of the town, a jail built after the plan of Howard, and a court-house. There are here flour-mills, tanneries, brick-kilns, breweries, malt-houses, and other manufactories. The market-day is Wednesday; and five yearly fairs are held. In the neighbourhood of the town is a place called Standard Hill, where was fought, in 1138, the battle of the Standard, in which King David of Scotland was defeated by the English. The borough of Northallerton returns one member to Parliament. Pop. (1851) 4995.