Halton is a district of east

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, situated between

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to the north,

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to the west, Colton to the east and

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to the South.

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lies directly south of the estate. The area falls into the

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and Leeds East

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Etymology

The name of Halton is first attested in the

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of 1086, in the forms ''Halletun'' and ''Halletune''. The name comes from the

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words ''halh'' ('nook, corner of land') and ''tūn'' ('farm, estate'), and thus once meant 'estate in a corner of land'.Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), p. 51. The parish also contains Halton Deans, first attested in the period 1170–90 in Latin or French form, as ''denam de Haleton'', and in English form in the same century as ''Haletun dene'' and variants thereof. The ''deans'' element here comes from the Old English word ''denu'' ('valley'); the ''-s'' appears to have been added after the medieval period.

History

Halton, Leeds, St Wilfrid's Church - geograph

Halton was originally developed as a

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on the main road linking Leeds and

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. Development immediately before and after the

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, saw Halton grow substantially into a suburb of Leeds. St Wilfrid's Church in Halton is a grade II* listed church built in 1939 at a cost of £11,700 and designed by A. Randall Wells. The church is in the

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style and still has many of the original fittings designed by Wells as well as contemporary art by

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Demographics

Halton is a suburban area of mainly owner-occupied housing of which almost three-quarters is semi detached or detached. The area compares favourably with Leeds as a whole in relation to indicators of deprivation, with relatively low levels of crime and anti-social behaviour, low levels of households in receipt of means-tested and out-of-work benefits and high levels of educational attainment. The area has a low level of people from BME backgrounds.

Local facilities and attractions

The main Public Houses of Halton were the Irwin Arms (now demolished), The Travellers Rest (now demolished) and The Woodman. Halton Post Office April 2017

There is a Lidl, Tesco Express and Fultons supermarkets. The local Primary School is named Templenewsam Halton Primary School, with Whitkirk Primary also being within the local area. The area is to the east of

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and is close to the A63

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Notable people

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