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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
Image:Oatland014.JPG, Oatland Flats, Lovell Park Road
Image:HBOS Leeds.jpg, Lloyds Banking Group offices (formerly HBOS/Leeds Permanent Building Society)
File:The Hobby Horse, Leeds.jpg, The Hobby Horse
council housing
Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council estates, council housing, or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in so ...
situated between the city centre and 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 Lov ...
.
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
Leeds city centre is the central business district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is roughly bounded by the Leeds Inner Ring Road, Inner Ring Road to the north and the River Aire to the south and can be divided into several quarters.
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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
Leeds city centre is the central business district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is roughly bounded by the Leeds Inner Ring Road, Inner Ring Road to the north and the River Aire to the south and can be divided into several quarters.
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, to a new building in Lovell Park. This now belongs to Lloyds Banking Group.
Lovell Park Towers was used for the filming of '' Married Single Other''.
The site of Lovell Park itself was the site of a cattle market which dates back to before 1860.
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