Horsforth
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 50 ′ N , 1 ° 39 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SE236376 | ||
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| Residents | 21,562 (as of 2011 ) | ||
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| Post town | LEEDS | ||
| ZIP code section | LS18 | ||
| prefix | 0113 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber | ||
| Metropolitan county | West Yorkshire | ||
| Metropolitan Borough | City of Leeds | ||
| Civil Parish | Horsforth | ||
| British Parliament |
Pudsey Leeds North West |
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Horsforth is a town and municipality in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire , England .
etymology
Horsforth was mentioned in 1086 in the Domesday Book as Horseford , Horseforde and Hoseforde , however coins from the late 9th century with the inscriptions ORSNA FORD and OHSNA FORD are also ascribed an origin in Horsforth. The name is derived from the old English hors or * horsa (" horse ") in the plural genitive ( horsa / horsna ) and the word ford (" ford "), and means "horse ford ". This refers to a former ford through the river Aire , which was replaced by a stone bridge in the 19th century.
geography
Horsforth is northwest of Leeds city center, on a former ford through the River Aire on what is now Calverley Lane.
history
Administrative history
Horsforth was historically a township in the parish of Guiseley in West Riding of Yorkshire . In 1866 it became an independent municipality. In the late 19th century, it was considered the most populous village in the United Kingdom . In 1894 Horsforth became an urban district .
1974 Parish and Urban District were dissolved and incorporated into the new Metropolitan Borough of the City of Leeds. In 1999 it became an administrative parish with its own council , which made use of its right to declare Horsforth a city.
In 2001 Horsforth had 18928 inhabitants.
Middle Ages and early modern times
Before the Norman conquest of England , the land around Horsforth belonged to three Anglo-Saxon Thanes who were not known by name , then it was converted into a royal fiefdom and given to Norman nobles. Later it came under the administration of the 1152 founded Cistercian - Monastery Kirkstall Abbey .
After the dissolution of the English monasteries in 1539, Horsforth was divided and sold to five families, of which the Stanhopes gained the greatest influence and determined the fortunes of the place for the next 300 years. Their detailed records complement the detailed medieval records of Kirkstall Abbey as historical resources.
Horsforth was dominated by agriculture until the 19th century. The ford through the Aire was used, among other things, to transport woolen goods to and from Pudsey , Shipley and Bradford .
19th century
With the boom of the nearby industrial center of Leeds, Horsforth also experienced rapid growth. In 1820 the Watson family started a tannery in Woodside . The company later switched to soap production and was relocated to Leeds in 1861. From this emerged under Joseph Watson (1873-1922), who was raised to Baron Manton in 1922, the most important soap manufacturer in North East England, which was only behind Lever Brothers in terms of company size .
In the 19th century, the ford was replaced by the Aire with a stone footbridge.
In 1862, the rampant typhoid in Horsforth.
20th century
During World War II , the people of Horsforth raised the total cost of building the corvette HMS Aubretia, which was £ 241,000. The place's contribution to World War II expenses was expressly acknowledged in a letter from Bill Clinton , then President of the United States , to MP Paul Truswell in 2000 .
Economic history
High-quality sandstone was extracted from the quarries near Horsforth , which was already used as a building material for Kirkstall Abbey and as a millstone in the Middle Ages . He was also the construction of the beach promenade in Scarborough used and sandstone from the Golden Quarry Bank was to Egypt exported. These occurrences are the reason why a large part of the buildings in Horsforth are not made of bricks but of stone blocks.
The water power of the Horsforth Beck (Oil Mill Beck) served to drive textile factories. From the 19th century, Horsforth benefited from convenient transport links through toll roads ( turnpikes ), the emerging railways and trams, and the nearby Leeds and Liverpool Canal .
Today Horsforth is predominantly a Leeds oriented commuter community .
traffic
Streets
Horsforth is on the main roads A65 between Leeds and Crooklands and the A6120, which is the Northern Ring Road from Pudsey to Coton around Leeds.
railroad
Horsforth has a stop (formerly a train station) with two platforms on the Harrogate Line between Leeds and Harrogate . This is just outside the municipality in Cookridge on the Moseley Beck.
To relieve this station, the construction of another in Horsforth Woodside was intended. There was already a train station there until 1864.
On what is now the Airedale Line between Leeds and Skipton , the Newlay station of the former Midland Railway existed , which was renamed Newlay & Horsforth station in 1889 . It was south of the River Aire on the road between Horsforth and Bramley . In 1961 it was renamed Newlay again and closed in 1965.
bus
First Leeds operates bus routes to Leeds, Guiseley, Otley , Cross Gates , Seacroft , Pudsey , Yeadon and Leeds Bradford International Airport as part of the West Yorkshire Metro .
air traffic
Leeds Bradford International Airport at Yeadon is the closest airport to which Horsforth can be reached by city bus.
Education and culture
Horsforth is home to the campus of Leeds Trinity University , the former Leeds Trinity University College, which became an independent university in 2012 after previously being an "accredited college" of the University of Leeds .
Leeds City College , which primarily serves vocational training, has a location in the city with its Horsforth Campus , which until 2009 belonged to what was then Park Lane College.
Horsforth School is the local state secondary school . State primary schools are West End Lane Primary School, St Margaret's Primary School, Newlaithes Primary School, Westbrook Lane Primary School, Broadgate Lane Primary School, St Mary's Catholic Primary School and Featherbank Primary School (opened in 1911 as an elementary school and replacement for Grove Day School, temporarily only for students from 4 to 7 years, since 2011 again for students up to 11 years).
The Froebelian School is a private primary school.
The Horsforth Village Museum's collections and exhibitions document aspects of life against the backdrop of the changing importance of the place.
religion
The main churches in Horsforth are:
- Lister Hill Baptist Church
- Cragg Hill Baptist Church
- St Margaret's Church of England
- St James Woodside Church of England
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Central Methodist Church , Town Street
- Grove Methodist Church
- Woodside Methodist Church
- Willow Green Christian Fellowship ( Pentecostal Church )
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Church
- Chapel on the Leeds Trinity University campus
- Comboni Missionaries, Brownberrie Lane
Sports
In Horsforth there are the AFC Horsforth, Horsforth St Margaret's FC and Horsforth Ringway as football clubs , the Yarnbury Rugby Club, Horsforth Cricket Club, Hall Park Cricket Club, which also houses the Horsforth Harriers Running Club, and Horsforth Golf Club.
Personalities
- The London-born Ed Miliband (* 1969), who was the Labor Party leader from 2010 to 2015 , attended Featherbank Primary School in the 1970s and his brother David Miliband Newlaithes Primary School when her father, the political scientist Ralph Miliband, was a professor at the University of Leeds taught.
- Matthew Lewis (born 1989), actor (played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series )
- Patric Knowles (1911–1995), actor
- Marc Almond (* 1957), singer (attended Featherbank Primary School until 1968)
- Malcolm McDowell (* 1943), actor ( If ... , A Clockwork Orange , O Lucky Man! )
- James Milner (* 1986), football player
gallery
Former spinning mill
Woodbine Terrace, terraced houses made of sandstone
Leeds Country Way, a hiking trail near Horsforth
Horsforth Millennium Stone (memorial stone at the turn of the millennium )
Individual evidence
- ^ Victor Watts (Ed.): The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
- ^ Vision of Britain: Horsforth CP . Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Horsforth Town Council . Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Office for Neighborhood Statistics: Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: Leeds . Archived from the original on March 19, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Wilson, Charles: History of Unilever , Volume Vol. 1. London, 1954.
- ^ Epidemiological Society of London, ` ` Transactions '' . John W. Davies, London, 1863 (Retrieved July 28, 2015). (Google Books)
- ↑ Storm over U-boat film, BBC News, June 2, 2000 , BBC News. June 2, 2000. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ Multi Map . Multi map. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Horsforth school official website . Horsforth.leeds.sch.uk. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
- ^ History of our school . Featherbank.leeds.sch.uk. Archived from the original on February 27, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Horsforth Museum, Leeds - Yorkshire . UK Attraction. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Lister Hill Baptist Church . Listerhill.org.uk. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ St Margaret's Church Horsforth . Stmargaretshorsforth.org.uk. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ St James, Woodside . Stjameswoodside.org. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ "The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Calverley Lane, Horsforth" . GENUKI.org.uk. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ Central Methodist Church, Town Street, Horsforth, Leeds " . Geograph.org.uk . Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Grove Methodist Church, Horsforth, Leeds . Grovemethodist.org.uk. January 6, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ Thomson, Richard: Woodside Methodist Church, Outwood Lane, Horsforth, Leeds " . Genuki.org.uk. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed July 28, 2015.
- ^ Horsforth Churches Together . Grovemethodist.org.uk. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Horsforth . Genuki.org.uk. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ "History of the Chapel" . Leeds Trinity University. Archived from the original on March 21, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Comboni Missionaries . Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ Chris Taylor: Horsforth Cricket Club . Pitchero.com. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Horsforth Harriers Running Club . Horsforthharriers.co.uk. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Horsforth Golf Club . Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ "'Once a Featherbanker ...' Ed Miliband returns to the Horsforth school that fostered his love of Leeds United" . Yorkshire Post . October 14, 2011. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ McIntyre, Annette: " ... And that he would never be a professional footballer" . Telegraph & Argus . June 24, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ Ralph Miliband . London School of Economics. November 24, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
Web links
- Horsforth Town Council . Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- Horsforth Community . Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- Leeds Trinity University . Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- The Ancient Parish of Guiseley . GENUKI. Retrieved July 28, 2015.