Pudsey
Sign in to savePudsey is a market town in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is located midway between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 25,393.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Pudsey
- UK place.pushpin_map
- United Kingdom Leeds
- UK place.population
- 25,393
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 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 West and Pudsey
- UK place.post_town
- PUDSEY
- UK place.postcode_area
- LS
- UK place.postcode_district
- LS28
- UK place.dial_code
- 0113
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE 223 334
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 170
- UK place.london_direction
- SE
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Pudsey is a market town in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is located midway between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 25,393.
==History== The place-name Pudsey is first recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book as Podechesai(e). Its etymology is rather uncertain: it seems most likely to derive from a putative personal name *Pudoc and the word ēg meaning 'island' but here presumably referring metaphorically to an 'island' of good ground in moorland. Thus the name would mean 'Pudoc's island'. Other possibilities have been suggested, however. In the early sixth century the district was in the Kingdom of Elmet, which seems to have retained its Celtic character for perhaps as many as two centuries after other neighbouring kingdoms had adopted the cultural identity of the Angles.