Civil parishes in West Yorkshire

A civil parish is a subnational entity, forming the lowest unit of local government in England.

At the 2001 census, there were 557,369 people living in the parishes, accounting for 26.8 per cent of the county's population.

[7] Civil parishes in their modern sense date from the Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict.

[7] Urban civil parishes continued to exist, and were generally coterminous with the urban district, municipal borough or county borough in which they were situated; many large towns contained a number of parishes, and these were usually merged into one.

[9] Recent governments have encouraged the formation of town and parish councils in unparished areas, and the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 gave local residents the right to demand the creation of a new civil parish.