West Riding of Yorkshire
The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three former administrative areas of the traditional county of Yorkshire in England .
The county of Yorkshire was divided into three areas, so-called Ridings (from the old Norwegian þriðing, "third part", a legacy of the Scandinavian settlers of the 9th century): In addition to the West Riding, these were East Riding of Yorkshire and North Riding of Yorkshire . After the traditional counties were replaced by the administrative counties in 1888 , the three Ridings became separate administrative counties . The West Riding of Yorkshire retained this status until 1974. Then the core area of the West Riding was converted into the new Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire . The southern parts came to the also newly formed Metropolitan County of South Yorkshire ; the districts of Craven and Harrogate to the county of North Yorkshire . Small areas were assigned to the counties of Lancashire , Cumbria , Greater Manchester and East Riding of Yorkshire.
Until its dissolution, the West Riding had an area of 7169 km². The u. a. Towns of Barnsley , Batley , Bradford , Brighouse , Dewsbury , Doncaster , Halifax , Harrogate , Huddersfield , Keighley , Leeds , Morley , Ossett , Pontefract , Pudsey , Ripon , Rotherham , Sheffield , Todmorden and Wakefield .