Wetherby, United Kingdom

Ainsty is in the north of Wetherby, off the B1224 Deighton Road. Its earliest buildings date from the 1940s, made up of council and private housing. Much of the area was built by developer Norman Ashton in the 1960s.

Hallfield, in the south-east, is a large council estate and has some houses built by the prison service and some sheltered housing. The area is home to Wetherby High School, St James' Primary School, the cemetery, the Church on the Corner and Mason House Community Centre. A new medical centre has been built on the edge of the estate on the site of the demolished Hallfield Mansion.

Micklethwaite was a village in its own right, but its identity as a separate area has disappeared since the Micklethwaite Farm's buildings were demolished in the 2000s and replaced by 150 dwellings known as Micklethwaite. It is situated south of the River Wharfe and contains the police station, magistrates court, the Mercure Hotel and the town's leisure centre and swimming baths.

Deighton Bar is situated in the north-east, bordering Ainsty and Sandbeck and the village of Kirk Deighton in North Yorkshire, as is one street in Deighton Bar, Autumn Avenue. The oldest houses are in a row of terrace houses on Deighton Road. The area is home to Deighton Gates primary school between Ainsty and Deighton Bar. Most housing was built in the late 1970s by Barratt Developments.

The Wharfedale Brewery became Oxley's mineral water factory during the inter-war years. It was demolished in the 1950s and redeveloped as the West Yorkshire Road Car Company bus depot and bus station; it has been further redeveloped to include shops, offices and a restaurant. The site of the watermill, by the weir, is now occupied by riverside flats.

Wetherby has a manufacturing presence in the town and on the Thorp Arch Trading Estate. Many residents work in Leeds or on the Sandbeck industrial estate, major retailers in the town centre or at Thorp Arch. Large employers include the British Library, Morrisons, Goldenfry Foods and Moores Furniture.

2017 saw the return of brewing to Wetherby, when the Wetherby Brew Company established a new microbrewery and taproom on the York Road Industrial Estate.

In its heyday, Wetherby had seventeen pubs in its town centre. Only eleven now remain, of which ten are still open. The town's oldest surviving pub, the Brunswick Hotel, closed in 2003 and reopened as Harris' Bar; in 2012, it reopened again as The Brunswick after refurbishment by Enterprise Inns. The Three Legs public house closed in 2007 and became bar Thr3, Wetherby's first non smoking pub.

In 1989, the Wetherby in Bloom committee was founded and has charitable status. The town won the Entente Florale gold award in 1999 and an International Communities in Bloom award in 2005. It achieved success in the RHS Britain in Bloom competition in 1998, 2002 and 2010, along with numerous regional gold awards over the last 15 years.

The annual Wetherby Arts Festival is sponsored by Leeds City Council and Wetherby Town Council. It promotes the arts by providing a platform for local groups to perform and to bring in other performers and art forms.

On 2 July 2011 a geocache caused a bomb scare in the town, attracting news coverage by the BBC, the geocache was then involved in a controlled explosion leading to its destruction.

The local newspaper is the Wetherby News and the lifestyle magazine is the Excelle.

Local radio stations are BBC Radio Leeds, Heart Yorkshire, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire and Capital Yorkshire. Tempo FM is Wetherby's very own 100% volunteer-run community radio station, with studios located in the old council offices in Westgate.

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire, from the Emley Moor TV transmitter.

There are four primary schools situated in Wetherby: Crossley Street Primary School, Deighton Gates Primary School, St Josephs Primary School and St James C of E School. There is one secondary school, Wetherby High School (formerly Wetherby Secondary Modern School). . There is a further secondary school serving Wetherby situated in Boston Spa. The local college in Wetherby is Leeds City College.