Austhorpe
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| Austhorpe | |
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 Housing on Kingswear Crescent | |
  Austhorpe  Austhorpe Location withinWest Yorkshire | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LEEDS |
| Postcode district | LS15 |
| Dialling code | 0113 |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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Austhorpeis acivil parishand residential suburb of eastLeeds,West Yorkshire,England.It is 5 miles (8 km) to the east ofcity centreand close to the A6120dual carriageway(Leeds Outer Ring Road) and theM1 motorway.[1]
Location
[edit]The area is situated betweenPendas Fieldsto the north,Cross Gatesto the north west,Whitkirkto the west, andColtonto the south andGarforthto the east.[2]
Officially judging by the old boundaries of the former Austhorpe township, Austhorpe also includes the areas of Cross Gates, Colton Common and Barrowby. Colton Common became officially part of Colton when the Ingram family ofTemple Newsamkept it for their own after buying and then selling the rest of the Austhorpe Lodge estate. It crosses both of theCross Gates and Whinmoor(includingAusthorpe Hall) andTemple Newsamwards ofLeeds City Council.
The current east half of thecivil parishof Austhorpe and large Thorpe Park business park lie in the western tip ofGarforth and Swillingtonward. Austhorpe Parish Council declared nil balance accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2017.[3]
Austhorpe lies in theLS15 postcodearea. At the2011 Census,the population of Austhorpe was shown to be included in Cross Gates and Whinmoor ward.
Etymology
[edit]The nameAusthorpeis first attested in theDomesday Bookin the formOssetorp.Like a significant number of Yorkshire place-names, the name comes fromOld Norse.The first element is from Old Norseaustr('east') and the second from Old Norseþorp('outlying farmstead, secondary settlement'), an element found widely in the area (in names such asOsmandthorpeandThorp Arch).[4][5]: 19
Meanwhile, the place-nameBarrowby,found within the township of Austhorpe, is first attested in 1236, in the formBergeby.The name comes from Old Norseberg('hill') andbý('farmstead, village').[5]: 21
History
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After the Township dissolved, Austhorpe stopped developing as quickly as it was doing, possibly due to the once abundant coal fields close to the surface which had been a major source of commerce for the area since Roman times becoming empty with deep shaft mining proving to be unsuccessful compared to the close by coal source at Garforth. Whereas Cross Gates andColtonquickly developed, Barrowby, if anything, did not develop.
Pioneering Civil EngineerJohn Smeaton,designer of the longest standingEddystone Lighthouse,was born in Austhorpe.[6]Leeds band theKaiser Chiefsmake a positive reference to him in their hit song"I Predict a Riot".[7]
Austhorpe Hallis a grade II* listed building dated from 1694.[8]
Location grid
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Google Maps: Austhorpe,accessed 30 January 2021
- ^Office for National Statistics:Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: LeedsArchived19 March 2015 at theWayback MachineRetrieved 8 September 2009
- ^"Austhorpe Parish Council, Accounts"(PDF).leeds.gov.uk.Retrieved6 November2018.
- ^"What's in a name?".BBC Home.30 April 2008.Retrieved6 November2018.
- ^abHarry Parkin,Your City's Place-Names: Leeds,English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017).
- ^"Leeds nostalgia: The life of John Smeaton, father of civil engineering".Yorkshire Evening Post.6 June 2015.Retrieved6 November2018.
- ^Simpson, Dave; Lynskey, Dorian (24 February 2006)."Twelve artists talk about making one of their classic tracks".The Guardian.Retrieved6 November2018.
- ^Historic England."Austhorpe Hall (Grade II*) (1256314)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved6 November2018.
External links
[edit]- The ancient parish of Whitkirk:historical and genealogical information atGENUKI(Austhorpe was in this parish).
- Austhorpein theDomesday Book
