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Wakefield's local radio stations are BBC Radio Leeds, Heart Yorkshire, Capital Yorkshire and Ridings FM, was founded in 1999, [143] and rebranded in September 2020 as Greatest Hits Radio West Yorkshire. Wakefield is known as the capital of the Rhubarb Triangle, an area notable for growing early forced rhubarb. In July 2005 a sculpture was ...
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.
Wakefield, [2] also known as the City of Wakefield, is a local government district with city status and a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of Wakefield at the 2011 Census was 325,837. [3]
The WF postcode area, also known as the Wakefield postcode area, [2] is a group of 17 postcode districts in north-east England, which are subdivisions of eleven post towns. These cover much of southern and eastern West Yorkshire (including Wakefield , Pontefract , Dewsbury , Batley , Castleford , Heckmondwike , Knottingley , Liversedge ...
The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named County of York, West Riding . The lieutenancy at that time included the city of York and as such was named "West Riding of the County of York and the County of the City of York". [ 2 ]
West Yorkshire was formed as a metropolitan county in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, and corresponds roughly to the core of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire and the county boroughs of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, and Wakefield. West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council inherited the use of West Riding County ...
Overton is a village between Wakefield and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. The village is situated approximately 5.5 miles (9 km) south-west of Wakefield, 4 miles (6 km) south of Ossett, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Netherton and 4 miles south-west of Horbury. Overton is conjoined at its north-east to the larger village of Middlestown ...
The Yorkshire (West Riding) Electric Tramways operated two separate tramway services. One in Wakefield between 1904 and 1932, [ 1 ] and the other between Normanton , Pontefract and Castleford between 1906 and 1932