Place:West Yorkshire, England

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Name	West Yorkshire
Alt names	W York	source: BIAB Online (1999-2000) accessed 16 Dec 2002; UK Counties and Regions Abbreviations [web site] (1997-98) accessed 16 Dec 2002
	W Yorkshire	source: Royal Mail: PAF Digest [online] (2002) accessed 16 Dec 2002
Type	Metropolitan county
Coordinates	53.7°N 1.583°W
Located in	England (1974 - 1986)
See also	Yorkshire, England	historical county which included the three ridings
	West Riding of Yorkshire, England	administrative county which preceded West Yorkshire (1889-1974)

Contained Places

Civil parish: Gildersome ( 1974 - ); Heptonstall
Deserted settlement: Chevet
District: Wortley (near Barnsley); Wortley
Inhabited place: Aberford; Ackroyden; Ackton; Ackworth Moor Top; Ackworth; Addingham; Adel; Adwalton; Allerton Bywater; Allerton; Alwoodley; Armley; Arthington; Austhorpe; Austonley; Badsworth; Baildon; Bardsey; Barkisland; Barwick-in-Elmet; Batley ( 1974 - ); Beeston; Bierley; Bingley; Birkby; Birstall; Bolton; Boston Spa; Bowling; Bradford; Bradley; Bramham; Bramhope; Bramley (near Tickhill); Brighouse; Burley in Wharfedale; Calverley; Carlton; Cartworth; Castleford; Chapel Allerton; Clayton West; Clayton; Cleckheaton; Clifford; Clifton; Clough Foot; Cold Hiendley; Collingham; Colton; Compton; Cookridge; Copley; Cornholme; Cottingley; Cragg Vale; Crigglestone; Crofton; Cullingworth; Dalton; Darrington; Denby Dale; Denholme; Dewsbury; Drighlington; East Ardsley; East Carlton; East Keswick; East Morton; Eastwood; Eccleshill; Eccup; Eldwick; Elland; Emley; Esholt; Fairburn Ings; Farnley Tyas; Farnley; Farsley; Featherstone; Ferrybridge; Fitzwilliam; Fixby; Flockton; Fulneck; Fulstone; Garforth; Gildersome ( 1974 - ); Gipton; Glass Houghton; Golcar; Gomersal; Greetland; Guiseley; Hainworth; Halifax ( 100 - ); Halton; Hanging Heaton; Harewood; Hartshead; Haworth; Headingley; Hebden Bridge; Heckmondwike; Hemsworth; Heptonstall; Hepworth; Hessle; High Ackworth; Highburton; Hipperholme; Holme; Holmfirth; Holywell Green; Honley; Horbury; Horsforth; Huddersfield ( 400 - ); Hunslet; Ilkley; Illingworth; Keighley; Kiddal Lane End; Kinsley; Kippax; Kirkburton; Kirkheaton; Kirkstall; Knottingley; Laycock; Ledsham; Ledston; Leeds; Lepton; Lindley (near Huddersfield); Linthwaite; Linton; Little Lepton; Liversedge; Lofthouse; Loftus; Low Ackworth; Lower Cumberworth; Lower Denby; Luddenden; Lumb; Lumbfoot; Lydgate; Mankinholes; Manston; Marsden; Meltham; Menston; Methley; Micklethwaite; Middleton; Midgley; Mirfield; Moorthorpe; Morley; Mytholm; Mytholmroyd; Newmillerdam; Newsholme; Normanton; North Elmsall; Northowram; Nostell; Notton; Oakenshaw; Oakworth; Old Lindley; Old Town; Ossett; Otley; Oulton; Outlane; Ovenden; Oxenhope; Parlington; Pecket Well; Pole Moor; Pontefract; Pudsey; Queensbury; Rastrick; Ravensthorpe; Riddlesden; Ripponden; Rishworth; Rothwell; Saltaire; Scarcroft; Scholes; Scholes-in-Elmet; Shelley; Shibden; Shipley; Silsden; Slack; Slaithwaite; South Kirkby; Southowram; Sowerby Bridge; Sowerby; Stainland; Stanbury; Streethouse; Thornbury; Thornhill; Thornton; Tingley; Todmorden; Tong; Topcliffe; Triangle; Upper Denby; Upperthong; Upton; Wainstalls; Wakefield ( 500 - ); Walsden; Walton; Warley Town; Water Fryston; West Bretton; West Carlton; West Morton; Wetherby; Whitkirk; Wilsden; Yeadon

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West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972.

West Yorkshire, which is landlocked, consists of five metropolitan boroughs (City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds and City of Wakefield) and shares borders with the counties of Derbyshire (to the south), Greater Manchester (to the south-west), Lancashire (to the north-west), North Yorkshire (to the north and east) and South Yorkshire (to the south-east).

West Yorkshire County Council was abolished in 1986, and so its districts (the metropolitan boroughs) are now effectively unitary authorities. However, the metropolitan county, which covers an area of , continues to exist in law, and as a geographic frame of reference.

West Yorkshire encompasses the West Yorkshire Urban Area, which is the most built-up and biggest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire.

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