Municipal Borough of Pudsey
• 1911
(1872 - 1894)
Urban district (1894 - 1900)
Municipal borough (after 1900)
Pudsey was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1872 to 1974 around the town of Pudsey, covering Farsley, Calverley,and parts of Stanningley, Swinnow and Rodley.
A local board formed for the parish of Pudsey in 1872. It became an urban district in 1894 and gained the status of municipal borough in 1900.[1]
In 1937 it absorbed Calverley Urban District (2106 acres) and Farsley Urban District (821 acres).
It was abolished in 1974 and its former area became part of the City of Leeds, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire.
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References
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Pudsey MB/UD. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1915). The book of public arms : a complete encyclopædia of all royal, territorial, municipal, corporate, official, and impersonal arms.
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