Elmet
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- For other uses, see Elmet (disambiguation).
Elmet is an area of West Yorkshire in England. It was at one time an expansive Celtic kingdom covering large areas of the north of England, but the only official traces of this remain in the place names of some local villages: Barwick-in-Elmet; Scholes-in-Elmet; and Sherburn-in-Elmet.
The area is the subject of an acclaimed 1979 book combining photography and poetry; Remains of Elmet, by Ted Hughes and Fay Godwin. The book was re-published by Faber in 1994 simply titled Elmet, and with a third of the book being new additional poems and photographs.
External links
- Historic Elmet (http://www.oldtykes.co.uk/Elmet.htm)
- The Ancient Kingdom of Elmet (http://www.kessler-web.co.uk/History/FeaturesBritain/BritishElmet.htm)
- Echoes of Elmet group (http://www.lhi.org.uk/projects_directory/projects_by_region/yorkshire_the_humber/calderdale/echos_of_elmet/index.html)
- Essay on Remains of Elmet (http://www.zeta.org.au/~annskea/Elmet.htm)