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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 ]
King Edward Street. 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.
Ley Lands 1726 Street Sign Lady Beck going south from Skinner Lane, with the former Leylands on the right 53°48′05.6″N 1°32′08.2″W / 53.801556°N 1.535611°W / 53.801556; -1.535611 The Leylands was an area of Leeds , north of the city centre and west of Mabgate
Appearing on maps in 1560, the Headrow once formed the northern edge or "head" of medieval Leeds' boundary, hence its name. To the east the street crossed Sheepscar Beck, a tributary of the River Aire now culverted, and continued, known as "The Street", to York. In the 17th century it was renamed Parke Lane, Burley Bar, Upper Head Row and Lower ...
The place first appears on maps from John Cossins' 1726 Plan of Leeds, which shows a street labelled "Calls" running from the Leeds Bridge to Leeds Parish Church. [1] The old street sign also shows it as "Calls", without "the". The origin of the name Calls is uncertain.
John Cossins (1697 in Brompton-by-Sawdon – 1743) was an early cartographer, known for the following city maps: plan of Leeds (c.1730) titled "A New and Exact Plan of the Town of Leedes" [1] map of York (1726): "New and Exact Plan of the City of York" This displayed fashionable new houses around the margin of the map. [2]
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 ...
The Anglo-Saxon Leeds Cross was found when the church was replaced by the current Leeds Minster, in the 19th century. By the time of the Domesday Book, Leeds also had a manor house, which lay on the street. The street became associated with cloth manufacturing, and in 1711, the First White Cloth Hall was constructed on the street.