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West Yorkshire
Yorkshire
locality type:-   county

evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  York Shire
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of Yorkshire North from London, scale about 24 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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"York Shire"
county 
item:-  private collection : 162
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  West Riding of Yorkshire
source data:-   Map, West Riding of Yorkshire, ie West Yorkshire, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE"
map title 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.12
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