The North Yorkshire County Council Record Office collects, preserves and makes available for study, archive material for the whole of the county of North Yorkshire. It cares for millions of documents of all shapes, sizes and ages.
They include:
庐 the archives of the North Riding court of quarter sessions from 1605;
庐 the archives of the North Riding and North Yorkshire County Councils;
庐 the records of local courts;
庐 the archives of district, borough and parish councils;
庐 the archives of hundreds of landed families, individuals and institutions from the twelfth century;
庐 parish registers and other ecclesiastical records;
庐 the registers of the North Riding Register of Deeds containing approximately 1.25 million deeds made between 1736 and 1970;
庐 manuscript maps from the seventeenth century.
These documents come from a wide variety of owners and places, from national and local government authorities, from private homes, from solicitors' offices, from churches and from all over the country. They are kept together for permanent preservation and public access under the care of experts in their conservation, storage and interpretation.