Pudsey

Pudsey is a market town in West Yorkshire, England. When autonomous, it was consolidated into the City of Leeds metropolitan precinct in 1974. It is found halfway between Bradford downtown area and Leeds downtown area. Truly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a populace of 22,408. The previous Municipal Borough of Pudsey comprised just of addresses with a LS28 postcode, particularly Calverley, Farsley, Pudsey and Stanningley. Addresses with a LS28 postcode utilize the Leeds 0113 phone prefix. It additionally loans its name to the neighborhood parliamentary voting public of Pudsey, of which it is a section.

The put name Pudsey is first recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book as Podechesai.Its historical underpinnings is somewhat indeterminate: it appears to be well on the way to get from a putative individual name Pudoc and the word eg signifying 'island' however here apparently alluding figuratively to an 'island' of good ground in moorland. Along these lines the name would signify 'Pudoc's island'. Different conceivable outcomes have been proposed, however. In the mid 6th century the locale was in the Kingdom of Elmet, which appears to have held its Celtic character for maybe upwards of two centuries after other neighboring kingdoms had embraced the social personality of the Angles.