West Yorkshire (England)

URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81006936

Codes

• e-uk-en

Variants

• West Yorkshire, Eng.
• West Yorkshire

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n81006936

Identifies RWO

• https://d-nb.info/gnd/4079201-8

• Descriptor

  Counties

• Associated Locale

  Great Britain

Has Demonym

• West Yorkshiremen

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn++81006936#skos:Concept

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• England--West Yorkshire
• West Yorkshire Label from public data source Wikidata
• Yorkshire del Oeste

Earlier Established Forms

• West Yorkshire
• West Yorkshire, Eng.

Sources

• found: Grt. Brit. Ordnance Survey. West Yorkshire, c1973.
• found: BL had.(West Yorkshire (England))
• found: GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(adm2; 53°42ʹ00ʺN 001°35ʹ00ʺW)
• found: Wikipedia, viewed 14 July 2016(West Yorkshire; metropolitan county in England; consists of five metropolitan boroughs: City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds and City of Wakefield; administrative HQ in Leeds; located in the region of Yorkshire and the Humber; West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972 and corresponds roughly to the core of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire and the county boroughs of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, and Wakefield)

Instance Of

• MADS/RDF Geographic
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection

Change Notes

• 1981-01-22: new
• 2016-07-15: revised

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