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Horsforth is a town and civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, five miles north-west of Leeds city centre. Historically a village within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 18,895 at the 2011 Census. [1] It became part of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in 1974.
South portal in 2009. In the mid-1840s Railway Mania [2] was taking hold and railway companies competed with each other to bring forward schemes to access Wharfedale.Most of these schemes did not come to fruition but the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company's proposal, a counter to George Hudson's "megalomania", [3] to build a line from Leeds to Thirsk received approval in an Act of Parliament in ...
The area has regional studios and broadcasting centres which broadcast from Leeds: BBC Yorkshire broadcast from its studios on Peter's Square. ITV Yorkshire formerly Yorkshire Television broadcasts from the Leeds Studios on Kirkstall Road. Leeds TV also broadcast to the area which is required to broadcast 37 hours a week of first-run local ...
This is a list of settlements in West Yorkshire by population based on the results of the 2011 census. The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2021 . In 2011, there were 50 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in West Yorkshire , shown in the table below.
Horsforth railway station serves the town of Horsforth in West Yorkshire, England. It is a stop on the Harrogate Line , 5.75 miles (9 km) north-west of Leeds , and is the final stop in the West Yorkshire Metro regulated area towards Harrogate .
The West Yorkshire Built-up Area, previously known as the West Yorkshire Urban Area, is a term used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to refer to a conurbation in West Yorkshire, England, based on the cities of Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, and the large towns of Huddersfield and Halifax.
A map of West Yorkshire, showing the Metropolitan Boroughs: (1) Leeds; (2) Wakefield; (3) Kirklees; (4) Calderdale; and (5) Bradford. A civil parish is a subnational entity, forming the lowest unit of local government in England. There are 101 civil parishes in the ceremonial county of West Yorkshire, most of the county being unparished. At the ...
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of West Yorkshire in Yorkshire and the Humber. All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown. The number of councillors elected for each electoral division or ward is shown in brackets.