West Hardwick is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

City of Wakefield The City of Wakefield is a local government district with the status of a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

, England. It has a population of 29.Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Wakefield''
Retrieved 12 September 2009 Until 1974 it formed part of

Hemsworth Rural District Hemsworth was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Creation The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Hemsworth Rural Sanitary District. A directly elected rural d ...

. The population at the 2011 Census remained minimal. Details are included in the parish of

Hessle and Hill Top Hessle and Hill Top is a civil parish in the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. Scattered settlement in the rural parish includes the hamlet of Hessle, which lies about northwest of the village of Ackworth Moor Top and sout ...

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Villages in West Yorkshire Civil parishes in West Yorkshire Geography of the City of Wakefield {{WestYorkshire-geo-stub