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Leeds is largely covered by LS post codes, most but not all of which have Leeds as their Post town to be used in postal addresses. Parts of the city have BD (Bradford) or WF (Wakefield) post codes, and some LS post codes are outside the city (in particular LS24 covering Tadcaster and LS29 covering Ilkley). The council provides a map of postcode ...
Garforth owes its size to expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries during which the local land-owning Gascoigne family ran several coalmines in the area. The surrounding settlements of Micklefield, Kippax, Swillington, Methley and Allerton Bywater Great and Little Preston are all villages that prospered and grew as a result of the coal industry.
Great Preston is situated 9 miles south east of Leeds city centre and is 2 miles south of the town Garforth.The villages of Kippax and Swillington are also in close proximity, and, due to development of land into housing to the south of the village, Great Preston now borders Allerton Bywater.
Map of the main settlements Leeds, the largest city in the built-up area (BUA) and the United Kingdom's third-largest city by population Bradford, the second largest city in the BUA and United Kingdom's sixth largest city by population Huddersfield, a market town with the third-highest population in the BUA and one of the largest market towns in UK Wakefield, the BUA's third city and ...
Most of the district is an unparished area, comprising Leeds itself (the area of the former county borough), Pudsey, Garforth, Rothwell and the area of the former urban district of Aireborough. In the unparished area there is no lower tier of government. Outside the unparished area there are 31 civil parishes, represented by parish councils.
The LS postcode area, also known as the Leeds postcode area, [2] is a group of 29 postcode districts in England, within six post towns. These cover northern West Yorkshire (including Leeds , Wetherby , Pudsey , Otley and Ilkley ) and some parts of North Yorkshire (including Tadcaster ).
Micklefield is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It neighbours Garforth, Aberford and Brotherton and is close to the A1(M) motorway. The population as of the 2011 Census was 1,893, [1] increased from 1,852 in 2001. [2]
Ireland Wood is a small residential area in north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England named after the Woodland Trust wood which it contains. It is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) to the north-west of Leeds city centre. It was planned by the Leeds Housing Director, R.A.H. Livett, and won the Ministry Housing medal for 1945-9.