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Shadwell, West Yorkshire

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now serves as a library, which has operated independently since 2013. Other buildings include a primary school, The Red Lion pub, the Village Hall, a social club, a tennis club, a golf club and six shops (clothing shop, beauty shop, dry cleaner, fish and chip shop (itself a Grade II listed building dating from 1637), post-office/newsagent and a hairdresser. There is also a cricket club. Shadwell United is a junior football club which trains at the primary school. There are Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, Guides and Ranger groups.
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on Gateland Lane which had been disused and had vanished by then, as stones were taken for other buildings. The Shadwell Methodist Chapel dates from 1892, and replaced the smaller building on the opposite side of the road which was the Methodist Chapel from 1814 to 1892 and is also Grade II. This
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Today, Shadwell Parish excludes most of Slaid Hill, but includes the estate to the south of Shadwell Lane and east of Roundhay Park Lane. The 1881 Census makes it clear that the district of Shadwell extended to the west end of Shadwell Lane and to the Moortown Ring Road in the South. In addition
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In the early part of the 19th century it was still a village with fewer than 200 inhabitants, containing 11 farms, 2 inns and a Methodist chapel but no school or church. However, from the middle of the century buildings began to appear as wealthier people moved out of industrial Leeds, made with
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Slaid Hill is an area of Leeds which is within the manor or traditional estate of Shadwell, but is about half a mile west of Shadwell village with clear countryside between them, and the Shadwell name sign between. Slaid Hill is within the
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and is being increasingly referred to simply as an area or suburb of Leeds but retains its many village traditions. It had a population of 1,864 in 2001, reducing to 1,849 at the 2011 Census.
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In 1974 Shadwell became part of the enlarged City of Leeds in the new county of West Yorkshire. In 2002 the civil parish was reconstituted, with an elected parish council.
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portion could refer to shade, such as a shady spring, or a name such as Chad or Shad, and different characters with these names have been postulated.
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Shadwell Grange is a large house and farm in Slaid Hill, with a view over the Moortown Ring Road. It is a Grade II listed building.
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of early Christians. The village pub "The Red Lion" is located between two wells which were originally used to gather water for the
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Ordnance Survey, 1st Edition six inches to the mile OS map, sheet 203, surveyed 1847, published 1851, cited in Leeds City Council,
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could mean a well, spring or boundary, often a boundary stream, such as Shadwell Beck. The
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map. One of these, a “Holy Well”, is located in the Shadwell Holywell Triangle, a
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of the township. In 1866 the township became a separate civil parish as part of
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Shadwell Holywell Triangle: Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan
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Shadwell Holywell Triangle: Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan
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Eight "wells" or ‘springs" situated within Shadwell are shown on an 1851
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Land & Buildings at Spencer House Holywell Lane Leeds LS17 8EY
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The first written proof of Shadwell's existence is in 1086 in
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Wetherby and Easingwold: New Boundaries 2023 Calculation
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Village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England
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Shadwell is located in Leeds
Shadwell is located in West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
2011 census
Civil parish
Metropolitan borough
City of Leeds
Metropolitan county
West Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and the Humber
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
LS17
Dialling code
Police
West Yorkshire
Fire
West Yorkshire
Ambulance
Yorkshire
UK Parliament
Wetherby and Easingwold
UK
England
Yorkshire

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