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Wetherby
Wetherby ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is close to West Yorkshire county's border with North Yorkshire and lies approximately from Leeds city centre, from York and from Harrogate. The town stands on the River Wharfe and, for centuries, it has been a crossing place and staging post on the A1 road (Great Britain), Great North Road midway between London and Edinburgh. Wetherby Bridge, which spans the River Wharfe, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II listed building, listed structure. The course of the A1 road (Great Britain), Old Great North Road passes through the town and, as result of its situation on the road, as well as being a major Drovers' road, cattle droving route from Scotland to London, many coaching inns were established in Wetherby which are still used by travellers today. The town lies in the Wetherby (ward), Wetherby ward of Leeds City Council and the Wetherby and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wetherby Bridge
Wetherby Bridge is a scheduled monument and Grade II-listed building, listed bridge over the River Wharfe in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, dating from the 13th century.West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service. ''Wetherby Conservation Area''retrieved on 4 August 2007. The bridge connects Micklethwaite, Wetherby, Micklethwaite on the south bank to the town centre on the north. It formerly carried the A1 road (England), A1 Great North Road (Great Britain), Great North Road but now carries the A661 road, A661 Boston Road leading to Boston Spa and the south. History The bridge has 13th-century origins. It was rebuilt in the 17th century and widened twice, first in 1773 and in 1826 to a design by Bernard Hartley. Its repair has been a contentious political issue in the past. In 1315 Eleanor FitzAlan, Eleanor de Percy petitioned Edward II of England, Edward II for pontage for the bridge that she had undertaken to repair for redemption of the soul. An inquisition in York declared th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A1 Road (Great Britain)
The A1, also known as the Great North Road, is the longest numbered road in the United Kingdom, at . It connects Greater London, London, the capital of England, with Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The numbering system for A-roads, devised in the early 1920s, was based around patterns of roads radiating from two hubs at London and Edinburgh. The first number in the system, A1, was given to the most important part of that system: the road from London to Edinburgh, joining the two central points of the system and linking two of the UK's mainland capital cities. It passes through or near north London, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Stevenage, Baldock, Biggleswade, Peterborough, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Stamford, Grantham, Newark-on-Trent, Retford, Doncaster, Pontefract, York, Wetherby, Ripon, Darlington, Durham, England, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Morpeth, Northumberland, Morpeth, Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dunbar, Haddington, East Lothian, Haddington, Muss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wetherby And Easingwold (UK Parliament Constituency)
Wetherby and Easingwold is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, partly in North Yorkshire and partly in West Yorkshire. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. Alec Shelbrooke, previously Conservative MP for Elmet and Rothwell, was elected as the first MP for the new constituency. Boundaries Under the 2023 review, the seat was defined as being composed of the following as they existed on 1 December 2020: * The District of Hambleton wards of: Easingwold; Huby; Raskelf & White Horse. * The Borough of Harrogate wards of: Bishop Monkton & Newby; Boroughbridge; Marston Moor; Ouseburn; Spofforth with Lower Wharfedale. * The City of Leeds wards of: Harewood; Wetherby. * The District of Selby wards of: Appleton Roebuck & Church Fenton; Tadcaster. However, before the new boundaries came into effect, the second tier authorities in the county of North Yorkshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wetherby (ward)
Wetherby is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in north east Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the town of Wetherby and villages including Boston Spa, Bramham and Thorp Arch. Boundaries The Wetherby ward includes the following civil parishes: *Boston Spa *Bramham cum Oglethorpe ( Bramham Parish Council) * Clifford * Thorp Arch * Walton *Wetherby (Wetherby Town Council A town council, city council or municipal council is a form of local government for small municipalities. Usage of the term varies under different jurisdictions. Republic of Ireland In 2002, 49 urban district councils and 26 town commissi ...) Councillors indicates seat up for re-election. indicates seat up for election following resignation or death of sitting councillor. ''*'' indicates incumbent councillor. Elections since 2010 May 2024 May 2023 May 2022 May 2021 December 2019 by-election May 2019 May 2018 May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
River Wharfe
The River Wharfe ( ) is a river in Yorkshire, England originating within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. For much of its middle course it is the county boundary between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Its valley is known as Wharfedale. The watercourse first becomes known as the River Wharfe at the confluence of Greenfield Beck and Oughtershaw Beck at Beckermonds. Flowing initially through Langstrothdale, it then passes by, or in some cases through, Kettlewell, Grassington, Bolton Abbey, Addingham, Ilkley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Otley, Wetherby and Tadcaster. It then flows into the River Ouse, Yorkshire, River Ouse near Cawood, North Yorkshire, Cawood. The section of the river from its source to around Addingham is in Upper Wharfedale and has a very different character to the river downstream. The Wharfe is long (before it joins the Ouse), making it the 21st longest river in Britain. It is a public navigation from the weir at Tadcaster to its junction with the Ouse near C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spofforth, North Yorkshire
Spofforth is a village in the civil parish of Spofforth with Stockeld, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located about north-west of Wetherby and south of Harrogate, on the River Crimple, a tributary of the River Nidd. Etymology The name ''Spofforth'' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, in the forms ''Spoford'' and ''Spoforde'', while twelfth- and thirteenth-century spellings of the name include ''Spotford''. The name comes from the Old English words ''spot'' ("plot of land") and ''ford'' ("ford"), and thus once meant "plot of land by the ford"; the ford in question passed through Crimple Beck. History Spofforth grew as a village at the time that Knaresborough was the important town in the area, with Harrogate and Wetherby being less so. The village saw the building of Spofforth Castle in the thirteenth century. Eighteenth century Knaresborough road builder Blind Jack Metcalf spent the latter years of his life in the village and is buried in the chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
West Riding Of Yorkshire
The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named County of York, West Riding. The Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, lieutenancy at that time included the city of York and as such was named "West Riding of the County of York and the County of the City of York". The riding ceased to be used for administrative purposes in 1974, when England's local government was reformed. Contemporary local government boundaries in Yorkshire largely do not follow those of the riding. All of South Yorkshire (except Finningley) and West Yorkshire were historically within its boundaries, as were the south-western areas of North Yorkshire (including Ripon), the Sedbergh area of Cumbria, the Barnoldswick and Slaidburn areas of Lancashire, the Saddleworth area of Greater Manchester and the part of the East Riding of Yorkshire around Goole and southwest of the River Ouse, Yorkshire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ) is an area of Northern England which was History of Yorkshire, historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its county town, the city of York. The south-west of Yorkshire is densely populated, and includes the cities of Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Doncaster and Wakefield. The north and east of the county are more sparsely populated, however the north-east includes the southern part of the Teesside conurbation, and the port city of Kingston upon Hull is located in the south-east. York is located near the centre of the county. Yorkshire has a Yorkshire Coast, coastline to the North Sea to the east. The North York Moors occupy the north-east of the county, and the centre contains the Vale of Mowbray in the north and the Vale of York in the south. The west contains part of the Pennines, which form the Yorkshire Dales in the north-west. The county was historically borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Parliament Constituencies
The Parliament of the United Kingdom currently has 650 parliamentary constituencies across the constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), each electing a single member of parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the plurality (first-past-the-post) voting system, ordinarily every five years. Voting last took place in all 650 of those constituencies at the United Kingdom general election on 4 July 2024. The number of seats rose from 646 to 650 at the 2010 general election after proposals made by the boundary commissions for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies) were adopted through statutory instruments. Constituencies in Scotland remained unchanged, as the Boundary Commission for Scotland had completed a review just before the 2005 general election, which had resulted in a reduction of 13 seats. Primary legislation provides for the independence of the boundary commissions for each of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
