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Guiseley
Guiseley ( ) is an area in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated south of Otley and Menston and is now a north-western suburb of Leeds. It sits in the Guiseley and Rawdon (ward), Guiseley and Rawdon ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds North West (UK Parliament constituency), Leeds North West parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census, Guiseley with Rawdon, West Yorkshire, Rawdon had a population of over 21,000, increasing to 22,347 at the 2011 Census. The A65 road, A65 Otley Road, which passes through the town, is the main shopping street. Guiseley railway station has regular train services into Leeds railway station, Leeds, Bradford Forster Square railway station, Bradford and Ilkley railway station, Ilkley stations on the Wharfedale Line. Etymology The name of Guiseley is first attested in an eleventh-century copy of a charter from around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guiseley Wells 2016
Guiseley ( ) is an area in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated south of Otley and Menston and is now a north-western suburb of Leeds. It sits in the Guiseley and Rawdon ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds North West parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census, Guiseley with Rawdon had a population of over 21,000, increasing to 22,347 at the 2011 Census. The A65 Otley Road, which passes through the town, is the main shopping street. Guiseley railway station has regular train services into Leeds, Bradford and Ilkley stations on the Wharfedale Line. Etymology The name of Guiseley is first attested in an eleventh-century copy of a charter from around 972, as ''Gislicleh''; it next appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Gisele'' and similar variants. The early spelling suggests that the first element of the name is an Old English personal name ''Gīslic''. No such na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guiseley Theatre
Guiseley Theatre, formerly Guiseley Town Hall, is a municipal building at The Green, Guiseley, West Yorkshire, England. The structure, which was once the headquarters of Guiseley Urban District Council, is now a theatre. History A local board of health was established to make improvements in Guiseley in September 1863 and, following an offer from the member of parliament, Matthew Thompson, to pay most of the cost, the board decided to commission purpose-built offices for the administration of the town. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by Thompson's eldest daughter, Eliza Thompson, on 7 July 1867. It was designed by Knowles and Wilcock of Bradford in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £3,000 and was officially opened on 26 December 1867. The event was celebrated by a performance of ''The Messiah'' by George Frideric Handel. Thompson formally handed over the deeds of the property to the chairman of the local board of health in the prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guiseley Railway Station
Guiseley railway station serves Guiseley in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. On the Wharfedale Line between Ilkley and Leeds/ Bradford Forster Square, it is served mostly by Class 333 electric trains run by Northern Trains, which also manages the station. History The station opened in 1865, originally being owned by the Midland Railway. There were services to Otley until 1965, when the Arthington to Menston line closed under the Beeching axe. The line was electrified between 1994 and 1995, while the station was largely reconstructed in 2002. Services During Monday to Saturday daytimes services run to/from Leeds twice per hour and once each hour to/from Bradford (half-hourly in the peaks), meaning that as Guiseley is the first station that is served by trains on both branches of the line, there are three or four services every hour to Ilkley. On Monday to Saturday evenings, services are hourly to/from both Leeds and Bradford Forster Square. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guiseley And Rawdon (ward)
Guiseley and Rawdon is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in the north west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering both the town of Guiseley, the majority of the village of Rawdon, West Yorkshire, Rawdon and the southern part of the town of Yeadon, West Yorkshire, Yeadon. Councillors indicates seat up for re-election. indicates seat up for election following resignation or death of sitting councillor. ''*'' indicates incumbent councillor. Elections since 2010 May 2024 May 2023 May 2022 May 2021 May 2019 May 2018 May 2016 May 2015 May 2014 May 2012 May 2011 October 2010 by-election May 2010 See also *Listed buildings in Guiseley and Rawdon Notes References {{reflist Wards of Leeds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawdon, West Yorkshire
Rawdon is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It sits on the River Aire and on the A65 road, A65 south of Yeadon, West Yorkshire, Yeadon. The northern parts of the village are part of the Guiseley and Rawdon (ward), Guiseley and Rawdon ward of Leeds City Council and the southern part is in the Horsforth (ward), Horsforth ward. The whole village is included in the Leeds North West (UK Parliament constituency), Leeds North West parliamentary constituency. History The name comes from Old Norse ''rauðr'' meaning red, and Old English ''dūn'' meaning hill. While no documentary reference has been made to Rawdon before the Domesday Book was composed in 1086, the area had seen human activity at least as early as in the Bronze Age, as evidenced by archeological finds of bronze axe heads and a gold torc. In the Domesday Book Rawdon (also spelt Roudun, Rowdun and Rowdon) is mentioned as ''terra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production and trading centre (mainly with wool) in the 17th and 18th centuries. Leeds developed as a mill town during the Industrial Revolution alongside other surrounding villages and towns in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, and a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds North West (UK Parliament Constituency)
Leeds North West is a constituency in the City of Leeds which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Katie White, of the Labour Party. History The constituency was created in 1950, as Leeds North-West; the name was changed by dropping the hyphen in 1955. Before the 1950 general election, Leeds was represented by the constituencies of: Leeds Central, Leeds North, Leeds South, Leeds West, (all created 1885); Leeds North-East and Leeds South-East (both created 1918). There were also constituencies of Batley and Morley (created 1918) and Pudsey and Otley (created 1918 replacing Pudsey). Leeds North West was created before the 1950 election, and at the same time the Pudsey and Otley constituency was abolished, re-creating the Pudsey constituency and moving Otley into the Ripon constituency. The constituency was held for the Conservative Party by Donald Kaberry from its creation in 1950 until his retirement in 1983, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menston
Menston is a village and civil parish in the City of Bradford in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Along with Burley in Wharfedale, most of Menston is within Wharfedale Ward in the metropolitan borough of Bradford. The remainder of Menston is in the Leeds City Council area. At the 2011 census it had a population of 4,498 (down from 4,660 in 2001). The village is home to St Mary's Menston Catholic Voluntary Academy, a secondary school with academy status. Menston is situated near the towns of Guiseley and Otley, with which it shares strong transport and community links. Landmarks Menston's Anglican parish church is dedicated to St John the Divine, and is part of the Diocese of Leeds. Other notable buildings include the former High Royds Hospital and St Mary's Menston Catholic Academy, both of which are located in the Leeds part of Menston. Menston is also known as the original home of Harry Ramsden's, the famous fish and chip restaurant chain, which opened i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otley
Otley is a market town and civil parish at a bridging point on the River Wharfe, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the population was 13,668 at the 2011 census. It is in two parts: south of the river is the historic town of Otley and to the north is Newall, which was formerly a separate township. The town is in lower Wharfedale on the A660 road which connects it to Leeds. The town is in the Otley and Yeadon ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds North West parliamentary constituency. History Toponymy Otley's name is derived from Otto, Otho, Othe, or Otta, a Saxon personal name and ''leah'', a woodland clearing in Old English. It was recorded as ''Ottanlege'' in 972 and ''Otelai'' or ''Othelia'' in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name Chevin has close parallels to the early Brythonic Welsh term ''Cefn'' meaning ridge and may be a survival of the ancient Cumbric language. Early h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A65 Road
The A65 is a major road in England. It runs north west from Leeds in West Yorkshire via Kirkstall, Horsforth, Yeadon, Guiseley, Ilkley and Skipton, west of Settle, Ingleton and Kirkby Lonsdale before terminating at Kendal in Cumbria. Bypasses Listed from south to north, beginning at Leeds: * The £5.5 million dual-carriageway Burley in Wharfedale Bypass opened in April 1995. * The £4 million Addingham bypass opened in January 1991. * The £2.8 million Draughton Bypass opened in December 1991. * The north section of the £16.4 million Skipton Bypass opened in December 1981, which is part of the A59. * North of Skipton, where the road meets the busy A629 from Bradford, there have been plans for a bypass around Gargrave, which is where the road crosses the Pennine Way. * The £8.5 million Settle & Giggleswick Bypass opened in December 1988. * The Clapham bypass is the earliest of these bypasses. The National Archives have a file "West Riding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds City Council
Leeds City Council is the local authority of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. Leeds has had a council since 1626, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 it has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. It is the second most populous local government district in the United Kingdom with approximately 800,000 inhabitants living within its area; only Birmingham City Council has more. Since 1 April 2014, it has been a constituent council of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2011. It meets at Leeds Civic Hall and has its main offices at Merrion House. History Leeds Corporation Leeds (historically often spelt Leedes) was a manor and then a town, receiving a charter from King Charles I as a 'Free Borough' in 1626 giving it powers of self-government, leading to the formation of the Leeds Corporation to administer it.Steven B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
