Municipal Borough of Pudsey

Pudsey was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1872 to 1974 around the town of Pudsey, covering Farsley, Calverley, Stanningley, Swinnow and Rodley.

Pudsey
Area
 • 19112,399 acres (9.71 km2)
 • 19615,323 acres (21.54 km2)
History
 • OriginPudsey parish
 • Created1894
 • Abolished1974
StatusLocal Government District
(1872 - 1894)
Urban district (1894 - 1900)
Municipal borough (after 1900)

A local board formed for the parish of Pudsey in 1872. It became an urban district in 1894 and gained the status of municipal borough in 1900.[1]

In 1937 it absorbed Calverley Urban District (2106 acres) and Farsley Urban District (821 acres).

It was abolished in 1974 and its former area became part of the City of Leeds, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire.

Coat of arms of Municipal Borough of Pudsey
Notes
Granted in 1901, based on the arms used by the Pudsey family. [2]
Escutcheon
Argent on a chevron Vert between two pairs of shuttles saltirewise in chief and a woolpack in base Proper three mullets pierced Or all within a bordure engrailed Gules charged with eight roses of the field.
Motto
Be Just And Fear Not

References
  1. Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Pudsey MB/UD. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  2. Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1915). The book of public arms : a complete encyclopædia of all royal, territorial, municipal, corporate, official, and impersonal arms.

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