The County Borough of Leeds, and its predecessor, the Municipal Borough of Leeds, was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England...
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Leeds, also known as the City of Leeds, is a metropolitan borough with city status in West Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative...
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in 1858. In 1866, Leeds and each of the other townships in the borough became civil parishes. The borough became a county borough in 1889, giving it...
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1951–1955: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Beeston, Holbeck, Hunslet Carr, and Middleton. 1955–1974: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Beeston, Holbeck...
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College was named. In 1893 the County Borough of Leeds was granted city status, and in 1897 Queen Victoria conferred the title of Lord Mayor on James Kitson...
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of the Labour Party. 1950–1951: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Far Headingley, Hyde Park, and Kirkstall. 1951–1955: The County Borough of Leeds...
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Act 1972, the area of the County Borough of Leeds was combined with those of the Municipal Borough of Morley, the Municipal Borough of Pudsey, Aireborough...
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Leeds West was a borough constituency covering the western part of the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire which is represented in the House of Commons of the...
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(1836–1889) County Borough of Leeds (1889–1974) Leeds (UK Parliament constituency) (1832–1885) Leeds (European Parliament constituency) (1979–1999) Leeds, Kent...
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County Borough of Leeds wards of Crossgates, Roundhay, Seacroft, and Shadwell, and parts of the wards of North and North East. 1950–1955: The County Borough...
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Pudsey (redirect from Pudsey, Leeds)
market town in the City of Leeds Borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is located midway between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre. Historically...
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identifiable areas. The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council. The ward boundaries were...
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Municipal Borough of Leeds ward of East, and parts of the wards of Central, North, and North East. 1955–1974: The former County Borough of Leeds wards of Burmantofts...
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Municipal Borough of Leeds wards of Mill Hill and West, and parts of the wards of Brunswick and Central. 1918–1950: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Central...
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County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county...
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which Leeds, Yorkshire derives its name, was anciently a forested area of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet. The settlement certainly existed at the time of the...
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the County Borough of Leeds. On 9 November 1912 the rural district was abolished when the boundaries of County Borough of Leeds were extended and the...
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Leeds South East was a borough constituency in the city of Leeds in West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons...
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The Coat of arms of Leeds City Council derives its design from the seventeenth century. In 1662 the Borough of Leeds received a new charter which created...
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A total of 99 councillors have been elected from 33 electoral wards across Leeds since 1980. From 1889 until 1974 Leeds was a county borough, independent...
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Leeds North was a borough constituency in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the...
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Hunslet Rural District (category History of Leeds)
Rural Sanitary District. It lay to the south of the county borough of Leeds, and initially consisted of four civil parishes: Middleton Oulton with Woodlesford...
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Leeds West and Pudsey is a constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is currently...
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Kirklees (redirect from Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees)
population of 422,500 in 2011; it is the third-largest metropolitan district in England by area, behind Doncaster and Leeds. The borough was formed on...
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Yorkshire (redirect from County of Yorkshire)
county was named after its original county town, the city of York. The south-west of Yorkshire is densely populated, and includes the cities of Leeds...
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and county borough of Leeds, the borough of Morley and part of the district of Rothwell with a total population of 562,000 in 1958. The number of consumers...
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after 1 April 1920 when the township was incorporated into the County Borough of Leeds. Leeds Council acquired land to construct "a vast low-density corporation...
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West Yorkshire Constabulary (category Defunct police forces of England)
borough forces for the county boroughs of Barnsley, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield. The other four West Riding county boroughs...
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Wharfedale Rural District (category Politics of the Borough of Harrogate)
transferred to County Borough of Leeds Arthington Askwith Blubberhouses Bramhope Carlton Castley Denton Esholt (1894–1937) transferred to County Borough of Bradford...
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Alwoodley (category Places in Leeds)
parish of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is 5 miles (8.0 km) north of central Leeds and is one of the most affluent areas of the county. Alwoodley...
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