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Headingley  West Riding

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Headingley like this:

HEADINGLEY, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Aire, and on the Leeds and Harrogate railway, 2 miles NW of Leeds; is a considerable place, with many handsome villas; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leeds.-The township bears the name of Headingley-with-Burley; contains the villages of Burley and Kirkstall; and is divided into the chapelries of H., Far-H., Burley, and Kirkstall. ...


Acres, 3, 058. Real property, £36, 012; of which £1, 800 are in iron works, and £155 in quarries. Pop., in 1851, 6, 105; in 1861, 9, 674. Houses, 2, 024. The increase of pop. was partly occasioned by the erection of residences for many of the merchants of Leeds. The Botanical and Zoological gardens of Leeds are here; and there are a large bleaching establishment, several worsted mills, a flax mill, and a tannery. The ancient oak also is here which gives name to the wapentake of Skyrack, originally Scire oak.—The chapelry of Headingley is of prior date to the other three chapelries. Pop. in 1861, 3, 119. The living is a p. curacy in the dio. of Ripon. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Leeds ''The church was rebuilt in 1837, at a cost of £3, 000. An Independent chapel at H. Hill was built in 1867, at a cost of fully £6, 000. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

Headingley through time

Headingley is now part of Leeds district. Click here for graphs and data of how Leeds has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Headingley itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Headingley, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20303

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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