Wadsworth is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 1,456,[1] increasing to 1,603 at the 2011 Census,[2] and was, until 1974, part of Hepton Rural District.
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Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the main settlements in the parish are Old Town, Chiserley and Pecket Well. It was named a berewick of Wakefield in the Domesday Book of 1086, and thus subsequently recorded as a subinfeudatory manor, before its subsequent extinguishment in the nineteenth century. From the seventeenth century it was also one of five townships forming the chapelry of Heptonstall.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Calderdale Retrieved 2 September 2009
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
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