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Garforth
See also People named Garforth.
Garforth is a village within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England. The 2001 Census lists 23,892 residents in the Garforth and Swillington ward: 80.57% of whom are homeowners, 20% more than the average for Leeds. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Garforth itself has 15,394 of those people,. The ward population was 19,811 at the 2011 Census. Garforth was in the parliamentary constituency of Elmet until the 2010 general election, when it was incorporated into the new constituency of Elmet and Rothwell. Garforth's population decreased to 14,957 in 2011.
Garforth (name)
People named Garforth include:
- Andrew Garforth
- Darren Garforth (born 1966), rugby player
- Charles Ernest Garforth VC (23 October 1891 – 1 July 1973)
- John Garforth, novelist
- William and his father Edmund Garforth, of Garforth House in York and Wiganthorpe Hall in Terrington (both houses which John Carr (architect) worked on.