Wothersome

Wothersome

Wothersome is a civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It is south of Wetherby, north east of Leeds and west of Bramham.

In 1848 it was described as having 3 farms totalling 600 acres and a population of 19 people. It was a township in Bardsey parish in the Skyrack wapentake, lower division, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. [cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51432| title=Wothersome - Wrayton | work=A Topographical Dictionary of England | date=1848 | accessdate=2008-03-11]

In 1871 the population of Wothersome was 24; in 1901 it was 28; it 1971 it was 26. [cite web | url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10475430 | work=A vision of Britain through time | title=A vision of Wothersome Tn/CP | accessdate=2008-03-11 ]

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