Baildon Urban District

Baildon
Urban district
Population
• 1911	6,042
• 1961	12,151^[1]

History
• Created	1 April 1896
• Abolished	31 March 1974
• Succeeded by	City of Bradford


• HQ	Baildon

Contained within
• County Council	West Riding


Map of boundary as of 1971

Baildon was an urban district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England between 1894 and 1974.

It was enlarged on 1 April 1937 by gaining part of Wharfedale Rural District; 225 acres of the parishes of Esholt and Hawksworth were transferred.^[1] Baildon Urban District was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District on 1 April 1974. A successor parish was created for the town, called Baildon Town Council.

The surrounding pre-1974 districts which now make up West Yorkshire

References

1 2 "Baildon UD". A Vision of Britain Through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 22 August 2021.

Administrative county of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1888–1974)
West Riding County Council
County boroughs	Barnsley Bradford Dewsbury Doncaster Halifax Huddersfield Leeds Rotherham Sheffield Wakefield York
Municipal boroughs	Batley Brighouse Castleford Goole Harrogate Keighley Morley Ossett Pontefract Pudsey Ripon Spenborough Todmorden
Urban districts	Adwick le Street Aireborough Baildon Barnoldswick Bentley with Arksey Bingley Colne Valley Conisbrough Cudworth Darfield Darton Dearne Denby Dale Denholme Dodworth Earby Elland Featherstone Garforth Hebden Royd Heckmondwike Hemsworth Holmfirth Horbury Horsforth Hoyland Nether Ilkley Kirkburton Knaresborough Knottingley Maltby Meltham Mexborough Mirfield Normanton Otley Penistone Queensbury and Shelf Rawmarsh Ripponden Rothwell Royston Saddleworth Shipley Silsden Skipton Sowerby Bridge Stanley Stocksbridge Swinton Tickhill Wath upon Dearne Wombwell Worsbrough Abolished before 1974: Altofts Ardsley Ardsley East and West Balby with Hexthorpe Barkisland Bingley Outer Birkenshaw Birstall Bolton upon Dearne Burley in Wharfedale Calverley Clayton Clayton West Cleckheaton Denby and Cumberworth Drighlington Eccleshill Emley Farnley Tyas Farsley Flockton Fulstone Gildersome Golcar Gomersal Greasborough Greetland Guiseley Gunthwaite and Ingbirthworth Handsworth Haworth Hebden Bridge Hepworth Hipperholme Holme Honley Hoyland Swaine Hunsworth Idle Kirkheaton Lepton Linthwaite Liversedge Luddenden Foot Marsden Methley Midgley Monk Bretton Mytholmroyd Netherthong New Mill North Bierley Northowram Oakworth Oxenhope Queensbury Quickmere Mid. Div. Ravensthorpe Rawdon Rishworth Sandal Magna Scammonden Scholes Shelf Shelley Shepley Skelmanthorpe Slaithwaite Soothill Nether Soothill Upper South Crosland Southowram Sowerby Soyland Springhead Stainland Thornhill Thornton Thurlstone Thurnscoe Thurstonland and Farnley Tyas Tong Upper Mill Warley Wheatley Whitley Upper Whitwood Wilsden Yeadon
Rural districts	Bowland Doncaster Goole Hemsworth Hepton Kiveton Park Nidderdale Osgoldcross Penistone Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rotherham Sedbergh Selby Settle Skipton Tadcaster Thorne Wakefield Wetherby Wharfedale Wortley Abolished before 1974: Barnsley Bishopthorpe Great Ouseburn Halifax Hunslet Keighley Knaresborough Leeds Pateley Bridge Pontefract Ripon Saddleworth Todmorden

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