a town in west yorkshire on the river aire home to a rugby league team
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title: Selby text: Selby Selby is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse, with a population at the 2011 census of 14,731. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Selby once had a large shipbuilding industry, and was an important port on the Selby Canal which brought trade from Leeds. Selby Town F.C. play in the Northern Counties East Football League. The town’s origins date from the establishment of a Viking settlement on the banks of the River Ouse. Archaeological investigations in Selby have revealed extensive remains, including waterlogged deposits in the core title: Ferrybridge text: Ferrybridge Ferrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Ferrybridge lies at a historically important crossing of the River Aire which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton. It is linked to other communities by the A1, which follows the route of the Great North Road. The village falls within the Knottingley ward of Wakefield City Council. The origin of the place-name is from Old Norse and means "bridge by the ferry". It appears as "Ferie" in the Domesday Book of 1086 and as "Ferybrig" in 1198. Geologically, Ferrybridge and Knottingley are located on rich soil, over a bed of title: Pontefract text: at Moor Lane Carleton. It runs three senior sides as well as a number of junior and girls teams. Rugby Union has been played in the town since the 19th Century when Pontefract won the Yorkshire Cup. Pontefract Pontefract is a historic market town in West Yorkshire, England, near the A1 (or Great North Road) and the M62 motorway. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the five towns in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield and has a population of 28,250, increasing to 30,881 at the 2011 Census. Pontefract's motto is "Post title: Knottingley text: Knottingley Knottingley is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England on the River Aire and the old A1 road before it was bypassed as the A1(M). Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 13,503, increasing to 13,710 for the City of Wakefield ward at the 2011 Census. Until 1699, it was an important inland river port but, in that year, the Aire was made navigable as far as Leeds, which soon surpassed it. Knottingley continued as a centre for boat building into the 20th century. In title: Airedale text: Airedale Airedale is a geographic area in Yorkshire, England, corresponding to the river valley of the River Aire (pronounced "air"). The valley stretches from the river's origin in Aire Head Springs, Malham which is in the Yorkshire Dales, down past Skipton on to Keighley, Bingley and Shipley through to Leeds and Castleford and on to join the River Ouse at Airmyn. This valley is of great topographic significance as it provides low-altitude passes through the mid Pennines to the west coast known as the Aire Gap. The upper Aire valley was formed 12,000 years ago by a retreating glacier. A