Elmet

Elmet is an area close to Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It was at one time an expansive Celtic kingdom covering large areas of the north of England, but the only official traces of this remain in the place names of some local villages: Barwick-in-Elmet; Scholes-in-Elmet; and Sherburn-in-Elmet; and in the local parliamentary constituency known as Elmet.

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The area is the subject of an acclaimed 1979 book combining photography and poetry; Remains of Elmet, by Ted Hughes and Fay Godwin. The book was re-published by Faber in 1994 simply titled Elmet, and with a third of the book being new additional poems and photographs.

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Leeds: Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in Yorkshire in the north of England. The River Aire runs through the city. In 1974 the former a county borough of Leeds was merged with the towns of Wetherby, Morley, Otley, Pudsey, and other surrounding areas to form a metropolitan borough ? the city status...

West Yorkshire: West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. It borders on Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire....

England: :For an explanation of often confusing terms like England, (Great) Britain and United Kingdom see British Isles (terminology)....