Editing Castleford (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Castleford Civic Centre (24th April 2021) 016.jpg|thumb|[[Castleford Civic Centre]]]]
Castleford was established as an [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]], in the administrative county of the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]] in 1894 under the [[Local Government Act 1894]], with an urban district council. Whitwood and [[Glasshoughton]] were added to the district in the 1930s. The urban district was incorporated as a [[municipal borough]] in 1955. [[Castleford Civic Centre]] was completed in 1970.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Linstrum |first1=Derek |title=West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture |date=1978 |publisher=Lund Humphries |isbn=9780853314103}}</ref>

Following the [[Local Government Act 1972]], the [[Municipal Borough of Castleford]] was abolished on 1 April 1974; it then became an [[unparished area]] of the [[City of Wakefield]], a [[metropolitan borough]] in [[West Yorkshire]]. Castleford is now controlled by [[Wakefield Council]]. Three electoral wards cover the town: Airedale and Ferry Fryston; Altofts and Whitwood; and Castleford Central and Glasshoughton.
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