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LS Postcode Area
The LS postcode area, also known as the Leeds postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 29 postcode districts in England, within six post towns. These cover northern West Yorkshire (including Leeds, Wetherby, Pudsey, Otley and Ilkley) and some parts of North Yorkshire (including Tadcaster). Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: , - ! LS1 , LEEDS , Leeds city centre , Leeds , - ! LS2 , LEEDS , Leeds city centre, Woodhouse , Leeds , - ! LS3 , LEEDS , Burley, Woodhouse , Leeds , - ! LS4 , LEEDS , Burley, Kirkstall , Leeds , - ! LS5 , LEEDS , Hawksworth, Kirkstall , Leeds , - ! LS6 , LEEDS , Beckett Park, Burley, Headingley, Hyde Park, Meanwood, Woodhouse , Leeds , - ! LS7 , LEEDS , Beck Hill, Buslingthorpe, Chapel Allerton, Chapeltown, Little London, Lovell Park, Meanwood, Miles Hill, Potternewton, Scott Hall, Sheepscar , Leeds , - ! LS8 , LEEDS , Fearnville, Gipton, Gledhow, Harehi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postcodes In The United Kingdom
Postal codes used in the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown dependencies are known as postcodes (originally, postal codes). They are alphanumeric and were adopted nationally between 11 October 1959 and 1974, having been devised by the General Post Office ( Royal Mail). A full postcode is known as a "postcode unit" and designates an area with several addresses or a single major delivery point. The structure of a postcode is two alphanumeric codes that show, first, the Post Town and, second, a small group of addresses in that post town. The first alphanumeric code (the Outward code or Outcode) has between two and four characters and the second (the Inward Code or Incode) always has three characters. The Outcode indicates the postcode area and postcode district. It consists of one or two letters, followed by one digit, two digits, or one digit and one letter. This is followed by a space and then the Incode which indicates the postcode sector and delivery poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyde Park, Leeds
Hyde Park is an inner-city residential area of north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, situated between the University of Leeds and Headingley. It sits in the Headingley and Hyde Park ward of Leeds City Council. The area is in the centre of the city's student community, being next to Headingley, another large student community. There are also many full-time, long-term, non-student families and single people, and a sizable South Asian community. Before the dense speculative developments of red brick terraced housing in the late Victorian era, the area was the site of the Leeds Royal Park pleasure ground, quarries, and fields in the estate of the Earl of Cardigan. The Hyde Park name was extended to the new neighbourhoods from Hyde Park Corner on the A660, with that nucleus historically being known as Wrangthorn. Toponymy The area surrounding Hyde Park Corner was originally known as Wrangthorn, a name still used in the Church of England parish Woodhouse and Wrangthorn, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gipton
Gipton is a suburb of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, between the A58 to the north and the A64 to the south. It is in the Gipton and Harehills ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds East parliamentary constituency. The separate area and woodland of Gipton Wood is in Oakwood, north of Harehills and part of the Roundhay ward. Gipton’s residents are known as Giptonites. Etymology The name of Gipton comes from Old English language, Old English, and is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the forms ''Chipetun'', ''Cipetun'' and ''Chiperton''. The first element is a personal name, ''Gippe'', and the second is the word ''tūn'' ('village, estate, farm'). Thus the name once meant 'Gippe's estate'.Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017). The name ''Coldcotes'' appears in many street names in the area and derives from the ancient Anglo-Saxon settlement of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fearnville
Fearnville is a small area of Leeds which has boundaries with Roundhay, Seacroft, Oakwood, Gipton and Harehills. Fearnville is commonly described as being part of Roundhay or Oakwood, although it is classed as being in the Killingbeck and Seacroft ward. Fearnville had a population of 3,654 in 2011. Fearnville Leisure Centre Fearnville Leisure Centre, off of Oakwood Lane, is a fitness/leisure centre commonly used by residents from Fearnville and the surrounding areas. It offers a variety of facilities, such as swimming, gym and football. There is a crown green bowling club on the grounds. Gipton Gala The Fearnville Leisure Centre playing fields are the location of the annual Gipton Gala. The Gipton Gala is a local festival, similar to the Leeds West Indian Carnival, but on a more minor scale. Usually, a procession starts at Gipton fire station on the morning of the gala, and makes its way to Fearnville Leisure Centre. There have been fears in the past for the future of the carniva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheepscar
Sheepscar is an inner city district of Leeds in West Yorkshire England, lying to the north east of Leeds city centre. The district is in the City of Leeds Metropolitan Council. It is overlooked by the tower blocks of Little London and Lovell Park to the west, and gives way to Meanwood in the north-west, Chapeltown in the north-east and Burmantofts in the east. Clay Pit Lane runs through Sheepscar to the south, while Scott Hall Road makes up the eastern border. The area consists of complex road junctions, Penraevon Industrial Estate and a number of warehouses thanks to the impressive transport links attractive to haulage companies. There are a number of upmarket car showrooms such as Jaguar Land Rover and Volvo. The former public library building survives, and was the Leeds base for the West Yorkshire Archive Service, but closed some years ago. now a Games studio. Throughout the winter months, Sheepscar is notable for its large gasholder. This is completely invisible thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Hall, Leeds
Scott Hall is a suburb of north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, adjacent to Chapeltown and Meanwood. The suburb falls within the Chapel Allerton and Moortown wards of Leeds City Council. The Scott Hall estate is made up largely of 1930s council housing on both sides of Scott Hall Road (and streets beyond) from Buslingthorpe Lane in the south to Potternewton Lane in the north. Location and facilities The A61 road between Leeds and Harrogate is the main thoroughfare known as Scott Hall Road, served by First buses 7/7A/7S. On this road, just north of Potternewton Lane in Miles Hill there are shops and the Scott Hall Leisure (sports) Centre which was refurbished at a cost of £500,000 in 2009. Scott Hall Church, formerly Scott Hall Christian Fellowship and Hope Hall, is an Evangelical fellowship.Scott Hall Church accessed 26 August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potternewton
Potternewton (until recently also Potter Newton) is a suburb and parish between Chapeltown and Chapel Allerton in north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Chapel Allerton ward of Leeds City Council. Potternewton is bounded by Scott Hall Road to the west, Roundhay Road to the east and Harehills Lane to the north. The main thoroughfare is Chapeltown Road. The suburb is often considered to be part of Chapeltown. On older maps, Potternewton included the Chapeltown and Scott Hall areas and parts of Harehills. Potternewton is an historic village and many older maps prioritise its name over Chapeltown. Etymology The name is attested in the twelfth century as ''Neuton'' and ''Neuthon''. The name is from the Old English ''nīwe'' meaning new and ''tūn'' a farmstead or estate. The name appears with the addition of 'potter' in the thirteenth century, as ''Pottersneuton'', ''Neuton Potter'', ''Potterneuton'' and ''Potter Newton'' because a pottery industry had developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Hill
Miles Hill is a district in Leeds. It is about north of Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England and is situated between Meanwood and Chapel Allerton Chapel Allerton is an inner suburb of north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, from the city centre. It sits within the Chapel Allerton ward of Leeds City Council and had a population of 18,206 and 23,536 at the 2001 and 2011 census respe ... next to Beck Hill. The district is located in the Chapel Allerton ward of Leeds Metropolitan Council. As the name suggests, it is a hilltop, looking south over Leeds down the A61 Scott Hall Road. The main part is the Miles Hill estate of 1920s council houses, brick built semi-detached and terraces.Leodis, a photographic archive of LeedsMiles Hill Estate, Miles Hill View, looking from Miles Hill Road accessed 26 August 2020 A further estate, Beck Hill was built to the west in the 1970s, containing the (now closed and demolished in 2008) Miles Hill Primary School. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovell Park
Lovell Park is an inner-city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The area falls within the Hyde Park and Woodhouse ward of the Leeds Metropolitan Council. Lovell Park along with its adjacent areas Little London and Blenheim, is an area of 1960s high-rise and maisonette council housing situated between the city centre and Sheepscar. The Londoner Public House in Little London was demolished in 2007 and a new 25-storey tower block, the Opal Tower, has been constructed on its former site. The only pub now remaining in Lovell Park is The Leeds Rifleman. The estate has only one shop, Lovell Park Stores, an independent newsagent/ convenience store/ off-licence. There are further shops within five minutes walk in the Merrion Centre, other parts of Leeds city centre and other parts of Little London. In the 1990s the Leeds Permanent Building Society relocated its offices from what is now The Light in Leeds city centre, to a new building in Lovell Park. This now belongs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little London, Leeds
Little London is a residential area of Leeds in England, north of the city centre and Leeds Inner Ring Road. It is so called because in the 19th century it had fashionable housing and interesting architecture comparable to London.John Gilleghan (2001) ''Leeds: An A to Z of Local History'' In the 1950s and '60s it became largely council housing and now consists of a mixture of high and low-rise flats and housing. The area falls within the Little London and Woodhouse ward of the City of Leeds Council. The area is divided into four estates; Lovell Park, Oatlands, Carlton and the Servias. History The area developed around an area then known as The Leylands in the 18th century, originally as a largely working class residential area housing workers for the area's textile industry. In 1865 the Carlton Barracks opened in the area and is still open. By the 1950s the area had become dilapidated, with much of the area's back-to-back housing being considered unfit for human habitation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapeltown, West Yorkshire
Chapeltown is a suburb of north-east Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Leeds City Council Ward of Chapel Allerton. It is approximately one mile north of Leeds city centre. Location and boundaries Chapeltown has no official boundaries, nor is it recognised by the Land registry or the Royal Mail, but it is widely recognised by residents of Leeds. According to the Ordnance SurveyChecked online, but also in publications derived from OS, such as ''AZ Leeds and Bradford Street Atlas'' (1993) Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd, Chapeltown is at around National Grid Coordinates SE430500, 437500, south of Harehills Lane (B6159) and east of Scott Hall Road (A61). Chapeltown Road runs north through Potternewton to Harehills Lane that is it leads to Chapeltown but is not on it.Likewise Potternewton Lane leads to Potternewton, Roundhay Road leads to Roundhay etc. A wider definition is it is in "the LS7 postal region, and can be mapped through four points; where Scot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapel Allerton
Chapel Allerton is an inner suburb of north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, from the city centre. It sits within the Chapel Allerton ward of Leeds City Council and had a population of 18,206 and 23,536 at the 2001 and 2011 census respectively. The area was also listed in the 2018 ''Sunday Times'' report on Best Places to Live in northern England. Location The region within the Chapel Allerton ward generally considered to be Chapel Allerton is bounded by Potternewton Lane to the south, Scott Hall Road to the west and Gledhow Valley Road to the north-east. Surrounding districts include Moortown, Meanwood, Roundhay, Gledhow, Chapeltown and Harehills. Chapel Allerton is on Harrogate Road, which, before the building of the A61 Scott Hall Road, was the main road from Leeds to Harrogate. The centre in terms of activity is Stainbeck Corner, at the junction of Stainbeck Lane, Harrogate Road and Town Street, which is also the key place on 19th century maps of the village. Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
