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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-south-and-west-yorkshire-county-and-district-boundaries-order-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2122",
  "legislation_title": "The North, South and West Yorkshire (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-south-and-west-yorkshire-county-and-district-boundaries-order-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes some alterations to the boundaries of the counties of North, South and West Yorkshire, and also district boundaries within South and West Yorkshire. The mapand table at the end of this Note give a general guide to the areas affected and the changes made. The table also gives an approximate figure for the total area of land involved(in hectares), and for the population affected.\nConsequential changes are made to local government electoral areas, petty sessional divisions and coroners' districts.\nPrints of the order maps (described in article 2) may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of each of the following—\nBarnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council, Leeds City Council, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Selby District Council and Wakefield City Council—\nand also at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment located in 2, Marsham Street, London SW1P 3EB.\nThe Local Government Areas Changes Regulations 1976 (S.I.1976/246, amended by S.I.1978/247) contain general provisions regarding the effect of orders such as this one.\nTABLE\nTransfers between—\nGeneral effect of order\nNorth Yorkshire (Selby) and West Yorkshire (Wakefield)\nArea: 550 hectares\nPopulation: 50\nRealignment of boundary, substantially to follow line of roads A11 and M62.\nSouth Yorkshire (Barnsley) and West Yorkshire (Kirklees)\nArea: 12 hectares\nPopulation: 20\nMinor realignments affecting the Kirklees parish of Denby Dale and neighbouring Barnsley parishes.\nSouth Yorkshire (Barnsley) and West Yorkshire (Wakefield)\nArea: 250 hectares\nPopulation: 500\nTransfers affecting the following areas—\nIn Barnsley\nUnparished area\nParishes of Great Houghton and Shafton\nIn Wakefield\nParishes of—\nHavercroft with Cold Hiendley\nNotton\nSouth Hiendley\nSouth Kirkby and Moorthorpe\nWest Bretton\nWoolley.\nSouth Yorkshire (Doncaster) and West Yorkshire (Wakefield)\nArea: 25 hectares\nPopulation: 3\nMinor realignments in uninhabited areas.\nBarnsley and Doncaster (within South Yorkshire)\nAreas: 150 hectares\nPopulation: NIL\nRealignment of boundary, affecting the Doncaster parishes of Adwick upon Dearne, Barnburgh, Clayton with Frickley, Hickleton and Hooton Pagnell.\nBarnsley and Rotherham (within South Yorkshire)\nArea: 85 hectares\nPopulation: 13\nTransfers affecting unparished areas in both districts, and the Rotherham parishes of Brampton Bierlow and Wentworth.\nKirklees and Wakefield (within West Yorkshire)\nArea: 85 hectares\nPopulation: NIL\nMinor realignments, and transfer in vicinity of Mitchell Laithes works to follow centre of River Calder.\nLeeds and Wakefield (within West Yorkshire)\nArea: 480 hectares\nPopulation: 890\nTransfers affecting unparished areas in both districts, the Leeds parish of Ledston and the Wakefield parish of Normanton.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2122/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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