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  1. Metropolitan county in NE England, created
  2. 1976, originally administered by an elected
  3. metropolitan council; its powers reverted to
  4. district councils from 1986. area 2,040 sq
  5. km/787 sq mi towns Wakefield (administrative
  6. headquarters), Leeds, Bradford, Halifax,
  7. Huddersfield features Ilkley Moor, Haworth
  8. Moor, Haworth Parsonage; part of the Peak
  9. District National Park products coal, woollen
  10. textiles population (1992) 2,052,000 famous
  11. people the Brontes, David Hockney, Henry
  12. Moore, J B Priestley
  13.