West Ardsley

Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it roughly approximates to an amalgamation of Tingley, Woodkirk, Hill Top, Upper Green, Common Side, Beggarington Hill and a number of other hamlets.The first time the name is used with reference to West Ardsley seems to be in the period 1138–47, in the form Erdislaw.[1] In Arthur Mee's The King's England series, he wrote that Woodkirk was "sometimes called 'West Ardsley'."The hamlets of Tingley, Hill Top, Upper Green and Common Side have merged through urban sprawl whilst Woodkirk remains isolated.[5] The fair used to stretch over a period of two weeks, but as the horse trade diminished, it now takes place on only the first and last days of said fortnight – known as "First o'Lee" and "Latter Lee".
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