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Garforth owes its size to expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries during which the local land-owning Gascoigne family ran several coalmines in the area. The surrounding settlements of Micklefield, Kippax, Swillington, Methley and Allerton Bywater Great and Little Preston are all villages that prospered and grew as a result of the coal industry.
Garforth and Swillington is a ward and Swillington is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The ward and parish contain 22 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area covered by ...
Garforth railway station serves the town of Garforth in West Yorkshire, England. It is one of the two stations in Garforth, the other being East Garforth, which is situated about 0.5 miles (800 m) east from the main station. It lies on the Selby Line. Garforth is 7.1 miles (11.5 km) east of Leeds and 16 miles (26 km) south-west of York.
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.
Sturton Grange is a civil parish in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 417, [1] reducing to 403 at the 2011 Census. [2] Most of the parish area is used for agriculture. Soft fruit is grown here at an industrial scale. [3] Population is concentrated in the northwest near the boundary with Garforth.
Leeds, [7] also known as the City of Leeds, is a metropolitan borough with city status in West Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Leeds and the towns of Farsley , Garforth , Guiseley , Horsforth , Morley , Otley , Pudsey , Rothwell , Wetherby and Yeadon . [ 8 ]
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The Aberford Railway was a privately owned light railway built in the 19th century between Garforth and Aberford in West Yorkshire, England.It was owned by the Gascoigne family of Yorkshire to transport coal from their collieries via the Great North Road and a connection with the Leeds and Selby Railway.