Adwalton

Adwalton
Adwalton
	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Morley and Outwood;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°45′05″N 1°39′16″W / 53.751388°N 1.654537°W

Adwalton is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Leeds and is now generally regarded as part of the larger village of Drighlington. It is in the BD11 (Bradford) postcode area. The population of the village at the 2011 Census was only limited. It is included in the Morley, West Yorkshire ward of Leeds City Council, and the Morley and Outwood UK parliamentary constituency.

It is notable as the site of the Battle of Adwalton Moor in 1643;^[1] an event of the First English Civil War.

Etymology

The name of the village is first attested in 1202, as Athelwaldon, and then in 1208 as Adwalton. The name derives from the Old English personal name Æthelwald and the word tūn ('farmstead, estate'). Thus the name originally meant 'Æthelwald's estate'.^[2]

References

^ "Battle of Adwalton Moor". Retrieved 24 September 2008.
^ Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), p. 12.

External links

Battle of Adwalton Moor - History of War.org
The ancient parish of Birstall: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI (Adwalton was in this parish).

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[1] "Battle of Adwalton Moor". Retrieved 24 September 2008.

[2] Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), p. 12.

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