{{Short description|Village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Use British English|date=March 2020}}
{{coord|53.661|-1.368|display=title|region:GB_scale:10000}} thumb|West Hardwick - Hardwick Lane '''West Hardwick''' is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 29.<ref>[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790273 Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Wakefield''] Retrieved 12 September 2009</ref> Until 1974 it formed part of Hemsworth Rural District. The population at the 2011 Census remained minimal. Details are included in the parish of Hessle and Hill Top.
The name Hardwick derives from the Old English phrase ''heorde-wīc'', meaning a herd farm or a farm for livestock.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |oclc=1228215388 |page=219 |edition=4}}</ref>
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Category:Villages in West Yorkshire Category:Civil parishes in West Yorkshire Category:Geography of the City of Wakefield
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