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    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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    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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    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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  • (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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • ceremonial county of West Yorkshire is divided into 24 parliamentary constituencies: 13 borough constituencies and 11 county constituencies, two of which are...
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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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    City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England. Morley is the largest town in the borough after Leeds itself. Morley forms part of the...
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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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    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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