Original sentence: The majority of its former area became part of the new non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire, which also includes much of the northern rural part of the West Riding as well as the city of York and the northern and western fringes of the traditional East Riding
Edited sentence: The majority of its former area became part of the new non-metropolitan administrative county of North Yorkshire, which also includes much of the northern rural part of the West Riding as well as the city of York and the northern and western fringes of the traditional East Riding.Yorkshire (and its division into Ridings) continues to exist as a geographical county in ancient and common law