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prior to its abolition in 1974 . County Borough s are marked in yellow.]] The term West Riding usually refers to the West Riding of Yorkshire in England , though Lindsey also possesses a West Riding. It is one of the three ancient divisions of the County of Yorkshire , its County Town being Wakefield . The Local Government Act 1888 created County Councils based around the Historic County borders. These Administrative Counties came into opperation in 1891 and were abolished in 1974 . Yorkshire's West Riding comprises an area roughly corresponding to its administrative successors West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire plus the Craven and Harrogate districts of North Yorkshire . Small parts lie in the administration of the Lancashire , Cumbria and Greater Manchester administrative areas and the post-1996 East Riding Of Yorkshire . It has an area of 1,771,562 acres (7,169 km2) from Sheffield in the south to Sedburgh in the north and from Slaidburn in the west to Adlingfleet in the east. Of this area the southern industrial district, considered in the broadest application of the term, can be seen to extend northwards from Sheffield to Skipton and eastwards from Sheffield to Doncaster , covering rather less than one-half. Within this district are Barnsley , Batley , Bradford , Brighouse , Dewsbury , Doncaster , Halifax , Huddersfield , Keighley , Leeds , Morley , Ossett , Pontefract , Pudsey , Rotherham , Sheffield , Todmorden (partly in Lancashire ), and Wakefield . Major centres elsewhere in the riding include Harrogate , and Ripon . Within the industrial region other urban districts include Bingley , Castleford , Cleckheaton , Elland , Featherstone , Handsworth , Hoyland Nether , Liversedge , Mexborough , Mirfield , Normanton , Rawmarsh , Rothwell , Saddleworth , Shipley , Skipton, Sowerby Bridge , Stanley , Swinton , Thornhill , Wombwell and Worsborough . Outside the industrial region are Goole , Ilkley , Knaresborough and Selby . It also contains a large rural area to the north including the Yorkshire Dales National Park . |
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