Otley is a market town and civil parish at a bridging point on the River Wharfe, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.
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12 Facts About Otley
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Otley's name is derived from Otto, Otho, Othe, or Otta, a Saxon personal name and leah, a woodland clearing in Old English.
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Otley Council prepared one of the first subsidized housing schemes, commencing with relatively open land in Newall on the North of the river in 1920.
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Historically Otley was a market-town and the centre of a large ecclesiastical parish in the wapentakes of Skyrack and Claro in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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The local authority was the lord of the manor until 1864 when Otley Board was formed and many public buildings date from then on.
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From 1894 Otley formed an Urban District, and in 1897 and 1903 expanded north of the River Wharfe to include Newall.
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Since local government reorganisation in 1974 Otley has been a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire.
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The town council and the Otley Museum were both based at Otley Civic Centre until the building closed in 2010.
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The historic town developed on the south bank of the Wharfe, but in the 20th century Otley expanded north of the river, to include new developments at Newall and the Weston Estate.
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Otley was the setting for the drama series The Chase and the ITV dramatisation of The Bad Mother's Handbook.
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On 30 April 2016, Otley was the start of the second stage of the Tour de Yorkshire.
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