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Woolley Edge services is a motorway service station on the M1 motorway within the borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It lies between junctions 38 and 39 close to West Bretton and west of the village of Woolley.
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.
The West Riding Registry of Deeds on Newstead Road is the headquarters of the West Yorkshire Archive Service, housing records from the former West Riding and West Yorkshire counties, and is the record office for the Wakefield Metropolitan District. [147] In 1913 Albert Winstanley opened the Picture House cinema in Westgate.
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]
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine West Yorkshire with North Yorkshire as a sub-region of the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, resulting in the creation of two new cross-county boundary constituencies: Selby which comprises the ...
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 ...
Pontefract is a historic market town in the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. It lies to the east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the towns in the City of Wakefield district and had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census.
The A636 is a main road in West Yorkshire, England, starting at Wakefield and connecting with the M1 motorway at junction 39 and with the A637 at Flockton roundabout It ends at the A635 at Denby Dale ( 53°34′14″N 1°40′13″W / 53.5705°N 1.6704°W / 53.5705; -1.6704 ( A636 road (southern