Pudsey was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1872 to 1974 around the town of Pudsey, covering Farsley, Calverley,and parts of Stanningley, Swinnow and Rodley.
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.
Arms
Coat of arms of Municipal Borough of Pudsey
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- 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
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References
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Pudsey MB/UD. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ 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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