Horsforth
Sign in to saveHorsforth is a town and civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, five miles north-west of Leeds city centre. Historically a village within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 18,895 at the 2011 Census. It became part of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in 1974. In 1999, a civil parish was created for the area, and the parish council voted to rename itself a town council. The area is within the Horsforth ward of Leeds City Council, which also includes the southern part of Rawdon.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Horsforth
- UK place.pushpin_map
- United Kingdom Leeds
- UK place.population
- 18,895
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Horsforth
- 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 North West
- UK place.post_town
- LEEDS
- UK place.postcode_district
- LS18
- UK place.postcode_area
- LS
- UK place.dial_code
- 0113
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE236376
- UK place.static_image_name
- TownStreetHorsforth.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Town Street, Horsforth
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Horsforth is a town and civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, five miles north-west of Leeds city centre. Historically a village within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 18,895 at the 2011 Census. It became part of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in 1974. In 1999, a civil parish was created for the area, and the parish council voted to rename itself a town council. The area is within the Horsforth ward of Leeds City Council, which also includes the southern part of Rawdon.
==History== thumb|left|Horsforth Museum thumb|left|The Home Front: Second World War display in Horsforth Museum Horsforth was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Horseford, Horseforde, Hoseforde; but late-ninth-century coins with the legend ORSNA FORD and OHSNA FORD may have come from Horsforth. The name derives from Old English hors or, to judge from the coins, *horsa ('horse') in the genitive plural form horsa/horsna + ford 'ford', thus meaning 'horses' ford'. This refers to a river crossing on the River Aire (possibly at Newlay), that was subsequently used to transport woollen goods to and from Pudsey, Shipley and Bradford. The original ford was situated off Calverley Lane, but was replaced by a stone footbridge at the turn of the 19th century.