Adwalton

Adwalton is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It is south west of Leeds and is now generally regarded as part of the larger village of Drighlington. It is in the BD11 (Bradford) postcode area. The population of the village at the 2011 Census was only limited. It is included in the Morley, West Yorkshire ward of Leeds City Council, and the Morley and Outwood UK parliamentary constituency.
It is notable as the site of the Battle of Adwalton Moor in 1643; an event of the First English Civil War.
Etymology.
The name of the village is first attested in 1202, as "Athelwaldon", and then in 1208 as "Adwalton". The name derives from the Old English personal name "Æthelwald" and the word "tūn" ('farmstead, estate'). Thus the name originally meant 'Æthelwald's estate'.