Adwalton is a village in the City of Leedsmetropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Leeds and is now generally regarded as part of the larger village of Drighlington. It is in the BD11 (Bradford) postcode area. The population of the village at the 2011 Census was only limited. It is included in the Morley, West Yorkshire ward of Leeds City Council, and the Morley and Outwood UK parliamentary constituency.
Adwalton
Adwalton, looking roughly north-west along the B6135 Wakefield Road
The name of the village is first attested in 1202, as Athelwaldon, and then in 1208 as Adwalton. The name derives from the Old English personal name Æthelwald and the word tūn ('farmstead, estate'). Thus the name originally meant 'Æthelwald's estate'.[2]
References
^"Battle of Adwalton Moor". Retrieved 24 September 2008.
^Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), p. 12.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adwalton.
Battle of Adwalton Moor - History of War.org
The ancient parish of Birstall: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI (Adwalton was in this parish).
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