# West Hardwick

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{{Short description|Village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2020}}

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thumb|West Hardwick - Hardwick Lane
'''West Hardwick''' is a village and [civil parish](/source/civil_parish) in the [City of Wakefield](/source/City_of_Wakefield) in [West Yorkshire](/source/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](/source/Hemsworth_Rural_District). The population at the 2011 Census remained minimal. Details are included in the parish of [Hessle and Hill Top](/source/Hessle_and_Hill_Top).

The name Hardwick derives from the [Old English](/source/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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