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The ha-ha wall is the older, it is to the south of the house, in brick with stone coping, and it contains a wooden gate. The roadside wall is probably later, it is to the west of the grounds, in stone with flat coping, and it contains wrought iron double gates. [7] II: Pigeon house, Redhall House
Harbour View was built in 1960, two years before the country's Independence in 1962. The community was the first in Jamaica to have a community paper and its residents claim that the community was the first to host street dances. [1] Harbour View is located in East Kingston and can be described as one of the best communities to live and raise ...
The Traveller's Rest Public House (then on the corner of Station Road and Austhorpe Road) opened in the 1860s. [11] The first Manston St. James C of E church was built in 1848 saving local residents the long trek to either Barwick in Elmet or Whitkirk. The first school was built in 1857 on Austhorpe Road in the area now occupied by "The Arcade".
The new construction of the East Leeds Orbital Road and road improvements to the old Ring Road (B902) will provide more change in the coming years, bringing an additional 52,000 new homes across East Leeds, [6] and up to 18,000 new homes in Whinmoor alone as a part of the Whinmoor Fields area (Northern Quadrant of the East Leeds Extension).
On Sir Simon's death the property would pass to his sister Anna Susannah (1781–1853), and her planter husband George Watson-Taylor (1770–1841), the fourth son of George Watson of Saul's River, Jamaica. [3] George later became the Liberal MP, for Devizes, England, and campaigner for the retention of slavery.
Austhorpe Hall is a house built in 1694 at Austhorpe, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a grade II* listed building. [1] The house is of red brick with contrasting stone quoins, seven bays and three storeys, with a triangular pediment over the Baroque doorway. Pevsner describes it as "A remarkably early case of acceptance of the classical ...
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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).