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Barwick-in-Elmet
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Barwick-in-Elmet
Barwick-in-Elmet
is a village in
West Yorkshire
, east of
Leeds
city centre. It is one of only three places in the area to be explicitly associated with the ancient
Celtic
kingdom of
Elmet
, the others being
Scholes-in-Elmet
and
Sherburn-in-Elmet
. It is part of the
civil parish
of
Barwick in Elmet and Scholes
. The name Barwick comes form the Old English for "
barley
wick", and was recorded in the
Domesday Book
of 1086 as
Bereuuith
.
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