Place:Allerton Bywater, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameAllerton Bywater
Alt namesAllerton-Bywatersource: Family History Library Catalog
Alretunsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 313
Alretunesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 313
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates53.734°N 1.355°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inWest Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    
See alsoLeeds (metropolitan borough), West Yorkshire, Englandmetropolitan borough of which it has been a part since 1974
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
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Allerton Bywater is a semi-rural village and civil parish in the south-east of mCity of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. The village itself is north of Castleford. The [[wikip[edia:River Aire|River Aire]] flows through the village to the southwest.

Allerton Bywater is built up of several smaller communities, mainly based around old mining villages including: Brigshaw, Hollinhurst and Bowers Row.

In the 1800s it was in the parish of Kippax.

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