Worth Valley is a
ward in the
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council,
West Yorkshire
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. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 Census was 14,387.
It is named after the
River Worth that runs through the valley to the town of
Keighley
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in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second-largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford.
Keighley is north-west of Bradford, n ...
where it joins the
River Aire. In the north it is bounded by
North Yorkshire
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, in the west by
Lancashire
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and in the south by
Calderdale District.
Ward
Worth Valley ward is a semi-rural area and the largest of the six wards that make up the
constituency of Keighley in West Yorkshire. Historically, it elects mostly Conservative councillors, except in 2004, when a representative of the
British National Party
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was returned to Bradford District Council. The previous councillor stated that this was a protest vote that "went disastrously wrong."
It contains the Keighley villages of
Oakworth,
Oldfield,
Haworth,
Cross Roads,
Oxenhope and
Stanbury; areas of farmland; and large expanses of
moorland
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. Its attractive villages, particularly Haworth and its
Pennine landscape are at the heart of
Brontë Country and attract many
visitors.
Councillors
Worth Valley ward is represented on
Bradford Council
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by three
Conservative
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councillors; Rebecca Poulsen, Chris Herd and Russell Brown. In 2017, before the 2018 elections, Glen Miller was deselected as a prospective councillor by the Keighley and Ilkley Conservative Association. Miller stated that he tended to speak his mind and that he had disagreed with a policy about letting members of other political parties leave and join the Conservatives.
indicates seat up for re-election.
indicates a by-election.
Notable people with Worth Valley links
The following people were born in the Worth Valley, have lived there in the past or are currently resident in the valley.
*
Brontë Sisters, lived in the village of
Haworth
**
Anne
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. (1820–1849), Novelist
**
Charlotte, (1816–1855), Novelist
**
Emily, (1818–1848), Novelist
*
Branwell Brontë
Patrick Branwell Brontë (, commonly ; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was an English painter and writer. He was the only son of the Brontë family, and brother of the writers Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte, Emily Brontë, Emily, and Anne Bro ...
, (1817–1848), painter and poet
* Rev
Patrick Brontë
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, (1777–1861), clergyman and writer
*
Eric Pickles
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, Conservative MP, started his political career as a councillor in the Worth Valley Ward
References
External links
* (Internet Explorer only)
BBC election resultsCouncil ward profile(pdf)
* http://worthvalley.org
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