Oulton is a village in the
City of Leeds
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metropolitan borough,
West Yorkshire
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, England, between
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by popula ...
and
Wakefield
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. It is at the junction of the
A639 and
A642 roads. Though now adjoining the village of
Woodlesford
Woodlesford () is a suburban village in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, south-east of Leeds city centre. Formerly part of the Rothwell Urban District, Yorkshire, Rothwell Urban District, it is now within the Rothwell (ward), Roth ...
, it was once quite separate.
The village formed part of the
Rothwell Urban District until its merger into the
City of Leeds Metropolitan District in 1974 and today sits in the
Rothwell ward of
Leeds City Council
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. It is also in the
Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency
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.
Oulton Hall was built in 1850 and is now a hotel and
conference centre
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.
Notable and former residents
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Richard Bentley theologian, critic and scholar, who became Master of
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...
.
* The cricketer and Anglican clergyman
Henry Bell was born in Oulton.
*
Francis Ingram slave trader and privateer.
File:Oulton Edrus Tailor 2016.jpg, Half-Timbered house on the Leeds Road, Oulton
File:Oulton The Three Horseshoes 2016.jpg, Three Horseshoes inn, Oulton
File:Oulton Methodist Church 2016.jpg, Oulton Methodist Church
File:St John's Church - Oulton - geograph.org.uk - 404415.jpg, St John the Evangelist's Church
File:Oulton Bentley Square Plaque 2016.jpg, Richard Bentley plaque
File:Airey houses on Wordsworth Drive, Oulton, West Yorkshire (7th October 2022) 007.jpg, Former National Coal Board
The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "ve ...
Airey house
An Airey house is a type of prefabricated house built in Great Britain following the Second World War.
Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to the Ministry of Works Emergency Factory Made housing programme, it features a frame of prefabricated concrete ...
s on Wordsworth Drive under threat of demolition.
Location grid
See also
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Oulton Academy
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Listed buildings in Rothwell, West Yorkshire
Rothwell is a ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It contains 40 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are listed at Grade II*, the middl ...
References
External links
Area websiteBig Red Curtain Performing Arts Incorporating TheatreWorks - Part-Time Performing Arts School based in Oultonat
GENUKI GENUKI is a genealogy web portal, run as a charitable trust. It "provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland". It gives access to a large collection of information, with the emphas ...
- Oulton was in this parish
The story of Woodlesford station
Further reading
Leeds City Council 2010Oulton Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan
Places in Leeds
Villages in West Yorkshire
Rothwell, West Yorkshire
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