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The building consists solely of student accommodation for the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University as well as Leeds' other further education institutions. The building was built on the former site of the Little Londoner (later The Londoner ) public house, as well as some former car parking in the Lovell Park area of the city.
The 1725 map by John Cossins spells it as Leedes.) [2] The name is not Old English in form, so is presumably an Anglo-Saxonisation of an earlier Celtic name. It is hard to be sure what this name was; Mills's A Dictionary of British Place-Names prefers Celtic * Lādenses 'people living by the strongly flowing river'. [ 1 ]
An 1881 street map shows the area built up and called The Leylands, and in 1887 the area had a population of 6209. [2] A plan of 1815 shows construction in progress with street names commemorating the victories of Nelson, namely Trafalgar Street and Nile Street.
City and Hunslet is a ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It contains over 400 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, eight are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, 30 at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Leeds is the largest city in Yorkshire ...
The old town is considered the retail core of Leeds, it extends south from buildings on either side of The Headrow to the River Aire. Kirkgate and Briggate are the oldest streets in Leeds, from which the city grew from.
The growing wealth of the area resulted in the building of Georgian houses and terraces in the later 18th and early 19th centuries, and this was following later in the 19th century by grand buildings housing offices, warehouses, banks and hotels. In due course impressive civic buildings, theatres and shopping arcades followed.
There are over 3,300 listed buildings in City of Leeds district (a wider area than Leeds, which includes several other towns such as Otley and Morley). [1] Lists of buildings in the upper two categories can be found at Grade I listed buildings in West Yorkshire (Leeds section) and Grade II* listed buildings in Leeds.
In 1790, the Ancient Order of Foresters was founded at the Crown Inn on the street, although the building was demolished in 1935. [5] 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]