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Garforth
Garforth () is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It sits in the Garforth and Swillington ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds East parliamentary constituency. As of 2011, the population of Garforth was 14,957, having decreased since the last census. It is east of Central Leeds, south-west of York and north of Wakefield. It is mostly an Un-Parished area, like much of Greater Leeds. Etymology The place-name ''Garforth'' appears first in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Gereford'' and ''Gereforde'', with ''gar-'' spellings first appearing in 1336 in the form ''Garford''. The name seems to derive from the Norse words ''gāra'' ('triangular plot of land', derived from the word ''gār'', 'spear') and ''ford'' ('ford)', and thus meant 'ford at a triangular plot of land'. Or perhaps; Spear of the River Crossing. The plot is thought to have lain at a sharp turn in the road now called The Beck. Spellings beginning with ''ger- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Garforth And Swillington (ward)
Garforth and Swillington is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the town of Garforth as well as the villages of Great Preston and Swillington. Boundaries The Garforth and Swillington ward includes the civil parishes of: *Austhorpe (east half) *Great and Little Preston *Sturton Grange *Swillington Councillors indicates seat up for re-election. indicates councillor defection. ''*'' indicates incumbent councillor. Elections since 2010 May 2024 May 2023 May 2022 May 2021 May 2019 May 2018 May 2016 May 2015 May 2014 May 2012 May 2011 May 2010 Notes References {{reflist Wards of Leeds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Leeds City Council
Leeds City Council is the local authority of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. Leeds has had a council since 1626, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 it has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. It is the second most populous local government district in the United Kingdom with approximately 800,000 inhabitants living within its area; only Birmingham City Council has more. Since 1 April 2014, it has been a constituent council of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2011. It meets at Leeds Civic Hall and has its main offices at Merrion House. History Leeds Corporation Leeds (historically often spelt Leedes) was a manor and then a town, receiving a charter from King Charles I as a 'Free Borough' in 1626 giving it powers of self-government, leading to the formation of the Leeds Corporation to administer it.Steven B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Swillington
Swillington is a village and civil parish near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. It is situated east from Leeds city centre, north of the River Aire, and is surrounded by streams including Fleakingley Beck. In 2001, Swillington had a population of about 3,530, reducing to 3,381 at the 2011 Census. The village forms part of the Garforth and Swillington ward of Leeds City Council and was a coal mining village until the closure of Primrose Hill pit. A housing estate now sits on the site of the colliery. The village is close to St Aidan's nature reserve, and the Leeds Country Way which passes through the village. The population of Swillington decreased to 3,088 in 2011. Etymology The name Swillington is first attested in the '' Domesday Survey'' in the forms "Suillictun", "Suilligtune" and "Suillintun". Its etymology is uncertain, but probably derives from Old English ''swīn'' "pig" + either ''lēah'' "open ground" or ''hyll'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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City Of Leeds
Leeds, also known as the City of Leeds, is a metropolitan borough with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in West Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Leeds and the towns of Farsley, Garforth, Guiseley, Horsforth, Morley, West Yorkshire, Morley, Otley, Pudsey, Rothwell, West Yorkshire, Rothwell, Wetherby and Yeadon, West Yorkshire, Yeadon. It has a population of (), making it technically the second List of English districts by population, largest city in England by population behind Birmingham, since London is not a single local government entity. Local government, Local governance sits with Leeds City Council and the city's 32 Parish council (England), Parish Councils. The current city boundaries were set on 1 April 1974 by the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, as part a reform of local government in England. The city is a Merger (politics), merger of eleven former local government districts; the unitary Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production and trading centre (mainly with wool) in the 17th and 18th centuries. Leeds developed as a mill town during the Industrial Revolution alongside other surrounding villages and towns in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, and a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Castleford
Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historic counties of England, Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the town centre the River Calder, West Yorkshire, River Calder joins the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation. It is located north east of Wakefield, north of Pontefract and south east of Leeds. Castleford is the largest town in the Wakefield district after Wakefield itself. The town is the site of a Roman Britain, Roman settlement. Within the historical Municipal Borough of Castleford are the suburbs of Airedale, Castleford, Airedale, Cutsyke, Ferry Fryston, Fryston Village, Glasshoughton, Half Acres, Hightown, Lock Lane, Townville, Wheldale and Whitwood. Castleford is home to the rugby league Super League team Castleford Tigers. History Castleford's history dates back to Ancient Rome, Roman times, archaeological evidence points to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kippax, West Yorkshire
Kippax is a town and civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated to the east of the city, near to Garforth and Great Preston. The Kippax and Methley ward of Leeds City Council is part of the UK Parliament constituency of Selby (UK Parliament constituency), Selby. The population of Kippax parish at the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census was 9,785. Kippax was a separate civil parish, in Tadcaster Rural District, until 1939, when it was annexed to Garforth. It re-acquired civil parish status and a parish council on 1 April 2004. History The name ''Kippax'' is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is first attested as ''Chipesch'' in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086, and as "Kippeys" in charters from the 1090s to the 1270s, and ''Kypask'' and ''Kypax'' from the 13th century onwards. The placename seems to be composed of an Anglo-Saxon personal name ''Cippa'' (with initial [tʃ-], suggested by the Domesday Book form) or ''Cyppa'' (with initial [k-]) + ''æsc'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Unparished Area
In England, an unparished area is an area that is not covered by a civil parish (the lowest level of local government, not to be confused with an ecclesiastical parish). Most urbanised districts of England are either entirely or partly unparished. Many towns and some cities in otherwise rural districts are also unparished areas and therefore no longer have a town council or city council, and are instead directly managed by a higher local authority such as a district or county council. Until the mid-nineteenth century there had been many areas that did not belong to any parish, known as extra-parochial areas. Acts of Parliament between 1858 and 1868 sought to abolish such areas, converting them into parishes or absorbing them into neighbouring parishes. After 1868 there were very few extra-parochial areas left; those remaining were mostly islands, such as Lundy, which did not have a neighbouring parish into which they could be absorbed. Modern unparished areas (also termed "n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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M1 Motorway
The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) motorway, A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle. It was the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the UK; the first motorway in the country was the Preston Bypass, which later became part of the M6 motorway, M6. The motorway is long and was constructed in four phases. Most of the motorway was opened between 1959 and 1968. The southern end was extended in 1977 and the northern end was extended in 1999. It is also the second longest motorway in the country with the M6 motorway being the longest at 232 miles (373 km). History There had been plans before the Second World War for a motorway network in the United Kingdom. John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu formed a company to build a 'motorway-like road' from London to Birmingham in 1923, but it was a further 26 years before the Special Roads Act 1949 was passed, which allowed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a Metropolitan counties of England, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire to the south, Greater Manchester to the south-west, and Lancashire to the west. The city of Leeds is the largest settlement. The county has an area of and a population of 2.3 million, making it the fourth-largest ceremonial county by population. The centre of the county is urbanised, and contains the city of Leeds in the north-east, the city of Bradford in the north-west, Huddersfield in the south-west, and Wakefield in the south-east. The outer areas of the county are rural. For local government purposes the county comprises five metropolitan boroughs: City of Bradford, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds, Leeds, and City of Wakefield, Wakefield, which collaborate through West Yorkshire Combined Authority. The cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Leeds East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Leeds East is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 by Richard Burgon of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The constituency was represented by Denis Healey from 1955 to 1992. Healey served as Defence Secretary from 1964 to 1970, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and latterly as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Constituency profile This seat includes the areas of Leeds around York Road and Temple Newsam, including several large council estates. The seat is ethnically mixed and residents are poorer than the UK average. History The constituency was created in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was first used in the 1885 United Kingdom general election, general election of that year. Leeds (UK Parliament constituency), Leeds had previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Micklefield
Micklefield is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It neighbours Garforth, Aberford and Brotherton and is close to the A1(M) motorway. The population as of the 2011 Census was 1,893, increased from 1,852 in 2001. Geography The village is typical of Yorkshire's former coal mining communities with its mix of local authority and private houses. It has undergone a rapid expansion in recent years with former commercial premises being demolished to make way for new private housing. The police house, fire station, community centre and local miner's welfare club have closed leaving the village with one public house, the Blands Arms, and two local convenience stores, in addition to land known locally as the "Mickie Rec" (recreation ground) which contains a football pitch, cricket pitch and two bowling greens. The "Rec" was owned and operated by the Coal Board before the closure of the local pit in 1980. The 1½ mile, £460,000, Micklefiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |