Wothersome

{{short description|Village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England}}

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Wothersome is a civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It is south of Wetherby, north east of Leeds and west of Bramham. It has a population of 40.[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790272 Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Leeds] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319120527/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790272 |date=19 March 2015 }} Retrieved 10 September 2009 From the 2011 Census the village is shown as being in the Harewood ward of Leeds Metropolitan Council.

In 1848 it was described as having 3 farms totalling {{convert|600|acre|km2}} and a population of 19 people. It was a township in Bardsey parish in the Skyrack wapentake, lower division, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51432| title=Wothersome - Wrayton | work=A Topographical Dictionary of England | date=1848 | accessdate=11 March 2008}}

In 1871 the population of Wothersome was 24; in 1901 it was 28; it 1971 it was 26.{{cite web | url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10475430 | work=A vision of Britain through time | title=A vision of Wothersome Tn/CP | accessdate=11 March 2008 }}

In 1418, the medieval spelling, or, at least, the pronunciation, may have been Wodusom.Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/629; [http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0719.htm IMG_0719]; first entry, second line; place where Robert Mauleverer was living