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102 relations: Administrative centre, Aire and Calder Navigation, Andrea Jenkyns, Barnsley, Barnsley Canal, Brett Ferres, British Summer Time, Brownfield land, Castleford, Castleford Tigers, Ceremonial counties of England, Championship (rugby league), Chemical substance, City status in the United Kingdom, Coal mining, Coat of arms of Wakefield, Conservative Party (UK), Council house, Countries of the United Kingdom, County borough, County Hall, Wakefield, Featherstone, Featherstone Lions, Featherstone Rovers, Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire, Frickley Athletic F.C., Geoffrey Boycott, Green belt (United Kingdom), Greenwich Mean Time, Hemsworth, Hemsworth Rural District, Horbury, Independent politician, Ironworks, ISO 3166-2:GB, Jon Trickett, Knottingley, Labour Party (UK), Leeds, Letters patent, List of English districts by area, List of English districts by population, List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2015, List of sovereign states, Local Government Act 1972, Local government in England, Machine tool, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Creagh, Metropolitan borough, ..., Municipal borough, Netherton, Wakefield, Newmillerdam, No overall control, Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, Normanton, West Yorkshire, Northern Premier League, Office for National Statistics, ONS coding system, Osgoldcross Rural District, Ossett, Outwood, Wakefield, Plurality voting, Political party, Pontefract, Pontefract South (electoral ward), Privatization, PRS for Music, Regions of England, River Aire, River Calder, West Yorkshire, Rob Burrow, Rugby league, Sandal Castle, Sandal Magna, South Elmsall, South Kirkby, South Kirkby and Moorthorpe, Stanley Ferry Aqueduct, Stanley, West Yorkshire, Super League, Tim Bresnan, Tom Briscoe, UK Independence Party, UK miners' strike (1984–85), Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), Urban sprawl, Wakefield, Wakefield Council, Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election, 2008, Wakefield Trinity, Walton, Wakefield, Ward (electoral subdivision), Warmfield cum Heath, West Riding of Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire Urban Area, Wintersett, Wool, Yorkshire and the Humber, Yvette Cooper, Zak Hardaker. Expand index (52 more) »
Administrative centre
An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
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Aire and Calder Navigation
The Aire and Calder Navigation is the canalised section of the Rivers Aire and Calder in West Yorkshire, England.
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Andrea Jenkyns
Andrea Marie Jenkyns (born 16 June 1974) is a British politician and singer.
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Barnsley
Barnsley (locally) is a town in South Yorkshire, England, located halfway between Leeds and Sheffield.
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Barnsley Canal
The Barnsley Canal is a canal that ran from Barnby Basin, through Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England to a junction with the Aire and Calder Navigation near Wakefield.
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Brett Ferres
Brett Ryan Ferres (born 17 April 1986) is a professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League.
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British Summer Time
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (in effect, changing the time zone from UTC+0 to UTC+1), so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.
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Brownfield land
Brownfield land is a term used in urban planning to describe any previously developed land that is not currently in use, whether contaminated or not or, in North America, more specifically to describe land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes with known or suspected pollution including soil contamination due to hazardous waste.
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Castleford
Castleford is a town in the metropolitan borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
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Castleford Tigers
The Castleford Tigers are a rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, that competes in the Super League, the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Ceremonial counties of England
The ceremonial counties, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England, are areas of England to which a Lord Lieutenant is appointed.
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Championship (rugby league)
The Championship is a professional rugby league competition.
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Chemical substance
A chemical substance, also known as a pure substance, is a form of matter that consists of molecules of the same composition and structure.
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City status in the United Kingdom
City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the monarch of the United Kingdom to a select group of communities:, there are 69 cities in the United Kingdom – 51 in England, six in Wales, seven in Scotland and five in Northern Ireland.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Coat of arms of Wakefield
The Coat of arms of the Wakefield District was granted in 1990.
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.
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Council house
A council house is a form of public or social housing built by local municipalities in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Countries of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom (UK) comprises four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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County borough
County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland), to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control.
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County Hall, Wakefield
County Hall or West Riding County Hall stands at the corner of Bond Street and Cliff Parade in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
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Featherstone
Featherstone is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, two miles south-west of Pontefract.
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Featherstone Lions
Featherstone Lions are an amateur rugby league club from Featherstone, West Yorkshire who play in the National Conference League and the CMS Yorkshire league Division 3.
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Featherstone Rovers
Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England, who play in the Championship.
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Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire
Fitzwilliam is a small village on the edge of West Yorkshire, England in the City of Wakefield district.
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Frickley Athletic F.C.
Frickley Athletic Football Club is a football club based in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire, England.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Geoffrey Boycott OBE (born 21 October 1940) is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer.
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Green belt (United Kingdom)
In United Kingdom town planning, the green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth.
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Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.
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Hemsworth
Hemsworth is a small town and civil parish on the edge of West Yorkshire, England.
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Hemsworth Rural District
Hemsworth was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Horbury
Horbury is a town in the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England and part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area.
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Independent politician
An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.
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Ironworks
An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.
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ISO 3166-2:GB
ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
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Jon Trickett
Jon Hedley Trickett (born 2 July 1950) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemsworth in West Yorkshire since a 1996 by-election.
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Knottingley
Knottingley is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England on the River Aire and the old A1 road before it was bypassed as the A1(M).
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
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Letters patent
Letters patent (always in the plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president, or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation.
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List of English districts by area
This is a list of districts of England ordered by area, according to Standard Area Measurements published by the Office for National Statistics.
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List of English districts by population
List of the 326 districts of England (English Municipalities) by population, estimated figures for from the Office for National Statistics.
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List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2015
The fifty-sixth Parliament of the United Kingdom was the legislature of the United Kingdom following the 2015 general election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.
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List of sovereign states
This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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Local Government Act 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.
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Local government in England
The pattern of local government in England is complex, with the distribution of functions varying according to the local arrangements.
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Machine tool
A machine tool is a machine for shaping or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformation.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
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Mary Creagh
Mary Helen Creagh (born 2 December 1967) is a British Labour politician who has represented Wakefield as its Member of Parliament (MP) since 2005.
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Metropolitan borough
A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England, and is a subdivision of a metropolitan county.
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Municipal borough
Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002.
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Netherton, Wakefield
Netherton is a village in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.
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Newmillerdam
Newmillerdam is a village and suburb of Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England.
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No overall control
In the context of local authorities in the United Kingdom, the term no overall control (abbreviated to NOC) refers to a situation in which no single political group achieves a majority of seats; and is analogous to a hung parliament.
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Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
The Classification of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS; French: Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of countries for statistical purposes.
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Normanton, West Yorkshire
Normanton is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.
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Northern Premier League
The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968.
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Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
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ONS coding system
In the United Kingdom, the Office for National Statistics maintains a series of codes to represent a wide range of geographical areas of the UK, for use in tabulating census and other statistical data.
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Osgoldcross Rural District
Osgoldcross Rural District was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Ossett
Ossett is a market town in within the metropolitan district of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
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Outwood, Wakefield
Outwood is a district to the north of Wakefield, a city in West Yorkshire, England.
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Plurality voting
Plurality voting is an electoral system in which each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the candidate who polls the most among their counterparts (a plurality) is elected.
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Political party
A political party is an organised group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in government.
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Pontefract
Pontefract is a historic market town in West Yorkshire, England, near the A1 (or Great North Road) and the M62 motorway.
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Pontefract South (electoral ward)
Pontefract South is an electoral ward of the City of Wakefield district used for elections to Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.
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Privatization
Privatization (also spelled privatisation) is the purchase of all outstanding shares of a publicly traded company by private investors, or the sale of a state-owned enterprise to private investors.
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PRS for Music
PRS for Music Limited (formerly The MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited) is the UK’s leading collection society, bringing together two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and the Performing Right Society (PRS).
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Regions of England
The regions of England, formerly known as the government office regions, are the highest tier of sub-national division in England.
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River Aire
The River Aire is a major river in Yorkshire, England, in length.
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River Calder, West Yorkshire
The River Calder is in West Yorkshire, in Northern England.
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Rob Burrow
Robert Geoffrey Burrow (born 26 September 1982) is an English former professional rugby league footballer, who spent 16 years playing for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League, before retiring in 2017.
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Rugby league
Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.
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Sandal Castle
Sandal Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Sandal Magna, a suburb of the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, overlooking the River Calder.
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Sandal Magna
Sandal Magna or Sandal is a suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England with a population of 5,432.
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South Elmsall
South Elmsall is a small town and civil parish which lies to the east of Hemsworth in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.
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South Kirkby
South Kirkby is a town in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England which is governed locally by South Kirkby and Moorthorpe Town Council.
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South Kirkby and Moorthorpe
South Kirkby and Moorthorpe is a civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England which is governed locally by South Kirkby and Moorthorpe Town Council.
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Stanley Ferry Aqueduct
Stanley Ferry Aqueduct was built between 1836 and 1839 to take the Aire and Calder Navigation over the River Calder in West Yorkshire, England.
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Stanley, West Yorkshire
Stanley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.
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Super League
Super League (currently known as the Betfred Super League for sponsorship reasons) is the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern hemisphere.
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Tim Bresnan
Timothy Thomas Bresnan (born 28 February 1985) is an English first-class cricketer.
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Tom Briscoe
Tom Briscoe (born 19 March 1990) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League.
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UK Independence Party
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is a Eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom.
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UK miners' strike (1984–85)
The miners' strike of 1984–85 was a major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures.
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Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)
In England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.
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Wakefield
Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.
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Wakefield Council
Wakefield Council, also known as Wakefield Metropolitan District Council is the local authority of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.
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Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election, 2008
The 2008 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council in West Yorkshire, England.
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Wakefield Trinity
Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, that plays in the Super League.
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Walton, Wakefield
Walton is a village and civil parish in the county of West Yorkshire, England, 3.5 miles south-east of Wakefield.
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Ward (electoral subdivision)
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes.
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Warmfield cum Heath
Warmfield cum Heath is a civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.
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West Riding of Yorkshire
The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.
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West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.
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West Yorkshire Urban Area
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.
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Wintersett
Wintersett is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.
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Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.
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Yorkshire and the Humber
Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, having served as the MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997.
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Zak Hardaker
Zak Alexander Hardaker (born 17 October 1991) is an English professional rugby league footballer who will play for Wigan Warriors in the Super League following the expiry of a 14 month ban for failing a drug test.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Wakefield
