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It ends at a major junction with the Leeds Inner Ring Road, where it merges with New Briggate, and the two continue together as North Street. Listed buildings on the west side of the street include the early-19th century General Eliott pub, [5] early-20th century 49-51 Vicar Lane, [6] the Victoria Leeds complex of arcades, [7] and the Grand ...
Leeds railway station. Leeds city centre is served by Leeds railway station. The station is one of 20 in Great Britain to be managed by Network Rail. It is the busiest English station outside London, and the UK's second busiest station outside London after Glasgow Central. [9] The station serves national, regional and suburban railway services.
Park Row is a street in Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England. It divides the main financial districts from the main retail districts and forms a spine between City Square and The Headrow, two of Leeds' most sought-after addresses. The street forms the western flank of the Public Transport Box, and as such is mostly reserved for buses ...
Northern part of Albion Street, looking north, in 2018. The street runs north, starting at Boar Lane, opposite the entrance to New Station Street. It passes underneath part of the Trinity Leeds shopping centre, to a crossroads with Commercial Street and Bond Street. It continues past Albion Place and Short Street, to a crossroads with Headrow.
Mabgate is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and the name of one of its streets. In Leeds City Council 's Mabgate Development Framework (2007), "the area is bounded to the west by North Street; to the east by Macaulay Street; to the north by Mushroom Street and to the south by the New York Road". [ 1 ]
In the 19th century, the Kirkgate Market was constructed at the city centre end of the street, while a railway line was built, spanning the middle of the street. [ 2 ] In 1984, a police officer, John Speed, was shot and killed on the street, and there is a memorial in his memory.
The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council. The ward boundaries were last reorganised in 2004. A map of the wards is available on the council website, [1] as is a postcode-to-ward tool. [2] Leeds is represented by eight Members of Parliament.
The street originated in the Medieval period, running between the town's manor house and the main street of Briggate, its name believed to be a corruption of the word "borough". [1] By the 18th century, the street was entirely built up. Between 1869 and 1876, it was widened, to provide better access to the New and Wellington railway stations ...