Wetherby (England)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
וות'רביי (אנגליה)
Name (Latin)
Wetherby (England)
Other forms of name
nnaa Wetherby, Eng
nne Wetherby (West Yorkshire)
Coordinates
-1.383888888 -1.383888888 53.9275 53.9275 (gooearth )
W0012334 W0012334 N0535544 N0535544 (geonames )
Associated country
Great Britain
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 125496714
Wikidata: Q817481
Library of congress: n 81035822
Sources of Information
  • BLNAL file, viewed 16 March 2023:heading (Wetherby (England))
  • Collins Britain atlas and gazetteer, 1999(Wetherby, W.Yorks.; small town, old market town on River Wharfe, 8m/13km SE of Harrogate)
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 53°55ʹ44ʺN 001°23ʹ34ʺW)
  • Wikipedia, viewed 16 March 2023(Wetherby; market town and civil parish in the City of Leeds district, West Yorkshire, England, close to West Yorkshire county's border with North Yorkshire; lies approximately 12 miles (19 kilometres) from Leeds City Centre, 12 mi (19 km) from York and 8 mi (13 km) from Harrogate; stands on the River Wharfe, and for centuries has been a crossing place and staging post on the Great North Road midway between London and Edinburgh; historically a part of the Claro Wapentake (as part of the parish of Spofforth) within the West Riding of Yorkshire; mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wedrebi; within the metropolitan borough City of Leeds, it sits in the Wetherby ward of Leeds City Council and Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency)
  • Wikipedia, viewed 20 Mar. 2026(Wetherby; since 2024, Wetherby has been in the Wetherby and Easingwold parliamentary constituency, having previously been in the abolished Elmet and Rothwell constituency)
  • Kelly's directory of Harrogate.