Kirkstall

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Kirkstall
Bridge Road
Bridge Road
Coordinates 53 ° 49 ′  N , 1 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 53 ° 49 ′  N , 1 ° 36 ′  W
OS National Grid SE 262 356
Kirkstall (England)
Kirkstall
Kirkstall
Residents 20,673 (2011)
administration
Post town LEEDS
ZIP code section LS3, LS4, LS5
prefix 0113
Part of the country England
region Yorkshire and the Humber
Metropolitan county West Yorkshire
Metropolitan Borough City of Leeds
British Parliament Leeds West

Kirkstall is a place in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire , England .

geography

Kirkstall is west of downtown Leeds . Neighboring towns are Bramley in the west, Hawksworth and West Park in the north, Headingley and Burley in the east and Armley in the south. The town is crossed by the A65 trunk road , the Leeds-Skipton railway, the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal . Kirkstall is 200 miles (320 km) away by road from both London and Edinburgh.

history

Kirkstall Abbey was founded by Cistercians from Fountains Abbey in the 12th century . The land was made available by Henry de Lacey, Baron von Pontefract. In the 13th century the monks founded a water mill, from which Kirkstall Forge developed in the 16th century , which is considered England's oldest ironworks. Kirkstall claims to be the oldest continuously used industrial location in Great Britain. The inhabitants of the monastery also worked in weaving and pottery and processed leather, lead and other metals.

In 1539 the monastery was dissolved and has since fallen into disrepair. In the English Civil War , royalist troops destroyed the bridge over the Aire, forcing parliamentary troops to detour via the upstream Apperley Bridge before they could retake Leeds in January 1643.

In the late 18th century, Kirkstall Forge began manufacturing shovels and spades, and in 1830 a railroad was built here to support the expansion of production. Axles for military vehicles were manufactured during World War I, then for civil vehicles such as trucks and buses. In 2002 the axle production was relocated to India and Spain, with which this branch of industry in Kirkstall came to a standstill. In 2008 most of the buildings on the site were demolished.

The printing industry also has a long history in Kirkstall, and although it has also seen a decline, there are still a few printing plants in operation.

An initially coal-fired, later oil-fired power plant was in operation until 1976 and was demolished in the 1980s.

Buildings

Kirkstall Abbey
Obelisk on the A65

The ruins of Kirkstall Abbey , now located in a public park, are the town's main attraction. In the immediate vicinity is the listed Abbey House Museum with recreated street scenes from Victorian England. Another notable building is the Grade II listed St. Stephen's Church in Morris Lane. There is an obelisk on the A65 that marks Kirkstall as the equidistant place to London and Edinburgh. From 1994, modern student dormitories were built on the site of the brewery, which was closed in 1983, using existing listed buildings.

traffic

Kirkstall Forge train station

In addition to the A65 between Leeds and Kendal in Cumbria, there are road links to Bradford and Harrogate and the surrounding towns. Kirkstall has a train station on the Airedale Line (Kirkstall Forge, reopened June 19, 2016), and Headingley station on the Harrogate Line , which touches the town to the northeast, is only a few minutes' walk away. A tram operated between Leeds and Kirkstall from 1872 to 1959. Today public transport is served by buses that connect Kirkstall with Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Pudsey, Seacroft, Otley and Keighley, among others. The Abbey Light Railway connected Bridge Road with Kirkstall Abbey on weekends from 1976 to 2012.

proof

  1. ↑ Kirkstall Abbey [1256668] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England . Retrieved September 13, 2017.
  2. ^ The History of Kirkstall Abbey . Leeds City Council. Archived from the original on September 18, 2017. 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 September 18, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leeds.gov.uk
  3. ^ Butler: The History of Kirkstall Forge Through Seven Centuries, 1200-1954 AD: The Story of Englands̓ Oldest Ironworks 1954, ISBN 978-0-900657-33-7 .
  4. ^ The Dissolution: the end of monastic life at Kirkstall . University of Sheffield. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ DC Wilcock: Later Rawdons and the Laytons ( en ) Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  6. ↑ Kirkstall Power Station . Association of Kirkstall Valley Park. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  7. ^ Peter Mitchell: Planet Yorkshire. Exhibition Guide (Accessed September 18, 2017).
  8. ↑ Gatehouse at Kirkstall Abbey (Abbey House Folk Museum) [1256646] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  9. ^ Abbey House Museum . Leeds City Council. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  10. ↑ Church of St Stephen [1375210] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  11. ↑ Kirkstall Brewery Student Village [1255819] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
  12. ^ First trains due at Kirkstall Forge on Sunday . In: West Leeds Dispatch . June 15, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  13. ^ PR Garside (ed.): Leeds City Tramways 1871-1959 ( en ). West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, November 19, 1981.
  14. ^ Jonathan Brown: Miniature Leeds railway on the move . In: Yorkshire Post , February 19, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2017. 

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