Editing Otley (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Otley Civic Centre (Taken by Flickr user 4th June 2012).jpg|thumb|[[Otley Civic Centre]]]]
Historically Otley was a market-town and the centre of a large [[ecclesiastical parish]] in the [[wapentake]]s of [[Skyrack]] and [[Claro (wapentake)|Claro]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. The various [[Chapelry|chapelries]] and [[Township (England)|township]]s in the ancient parish became separate civil parishes in 1866.<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10458079/relationships Vision of Britain website]</ref>  The local authority was the lord of the manor until 1864 when Otley Board was formed and many public buildings date from then on.<ref name=conserve/> From 1894 Otley formed an [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|Urban District]], and in 1897 and 1903 expanded north of the River Wharfe to include [[Newall, West Yorkshire|Newall]].  Since local government reorganisation in 1974 Otley has been a civil parish in the [[metropolitan borough]] of the [[City of Leeds]], in the county of West Yorkshire.  The parish council has exercised its option to declare itself a [[Town councils in England|town council]]. The town council and the [[Otley Museum]] were both based at [[Otley Civic Centre]] until the building closed in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk/news/4863301.Otley_Museum_prepares_to_move_exhibits/ |title=Otley museum prepares to move exhibits|newspaper=Wharfedale Observer|date=27 January 2010| access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref>

Otley lies in the [[Leeds North West (UK Parliament constituency)|Leeds North West]] constituency of the [[UK Parliament]] and is represented by MP [[Katie White (politician)|Katie White]] of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]. It is part of the Otley & Yeadon ward on Leeds City Council and is represented by three Liberal Democrat Councillors Ryk Downes, Colin Campbell & Sandy Lay.<ref>{{cite web|title = Councillor Sandy Lay |url = http://democracy.leeds.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=4577 |publisher = Leeds City Council |year = 2012 |access-date = 31 July 2012 |quote = Councillor Sandy Lay – first elected 4 April 2012}}</ref> It is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with the French town of [[Montereau-Fault-Yonne]], south of Paris.

Otley and Wharfedale [[ward (politics)|ward]] has a population of 24,000, and Otley itself has a population of 14,348, according to the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|Census 2001]].