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Thorpe Park Leeds [1] or simply Thorpe Park is a business park located near Brown Moor, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. [2] Companies that are headquartered in Thorpe Park include Northern Gas Networks, [3] Boost Drinks [4] and Pharmacy2U. [5] The Thorpe Park railway station is anticipated to open in the area in 2024. [6]
The Thanet Canal, also known as the Springs Branch, is a short branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, in North Yorkshire, England. It leaves the main canal in Skipton, and runs to some loading wharfs near Skipton Castle, which were used to load limestone from local quarries into boats for onward shipment. It was opened in 1773, and extended ...
Leeds is a city [a] 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.
Propaganda drawing of the union between Falangists and Carlists. From the youth magazine Flechas, 1937. The Unification Decree was a political measure adopted by Francisco Franco in his capacity of Head of State of Nationalist Spain on April 19, 1937.
The earliest recorded tallest building in Leeds. 1841 1858 Leeds Minster: 1837–1841 42 [19] 139 At the time of its construction, it was the largest church in the United Kingdom built on a new site since St Paul's Cathedral. [19] 1858 1966 Leeds Town Hall: 1853–1858 69 226 One of the tallest Town Halls in the United Kingdom. [citation needed ...
The name Austhorpe is first attested in the Domesday Book in the form Ossetorp.Like a significant number of Yorkshire place-names, the name comes from Old Norse.The first element is from Old Norse austr ('east') and the second from Old Norse þorp ('outlying farmstead, secondary settlement'), an element found widely in the area (in names such as Osmandthorpe and Thorp Arch).
Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes (provincial electoral district) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes .
Great Preston is situated 9 miles south east of Leeds city centre and is 2 miles south of the town Garforth.The villages of Kippax and Swillington are also in close proximity, and, due to development of land into housing to the south of the village, Great Preston now borders Allerton Bywater.