Garforth
Sign in to saveGarforth () is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, Yorkshire.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Garforth
- UK place.pushpin_map
- United Kingdom Leeds
- UK place.population
- 19,811
- UK place.population_ref
- (Garforth and Swillington Ward. 2011 census)
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- City of Leeds
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Yorkshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Leeds East
- UK place.post_town
- LEEDS
- UK place.postcode_district
- LS25
- UK place.postcode_area
- LS
- UK place.dial_code
- 0113
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE403330
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 165
- UK place.london_direction
- SSE
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Garforth () is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, Yorkshire.
It sits in the Garforth and Swillington ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds East parliamentary constituency. As of 2011, the population of Garforth was 14,957, having decreased since the last census. It is east of Central Leeds, south-west of York and north of Wakefield. It is mostly an Un-Parished area, like much of Greater Leeds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garforth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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