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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Leeds. You may be able to find further references to Leeds in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | LEEDS | a great town, a township, a parish, and a district | Imperial | LEEDS AND BRADFORD RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial | LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX JUNCTION | a railway | Imperial | LEEDS, DEWSBURY, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial | LEEDS NORTHERN RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Leeds.
Place | Type of entry | Source | ALLERTON-CHAPEL, or Chapel-allerton | a chapelry | Imperial | Armley | township, seat, and railway station | Bartholomew | ARMLEY | a township-chapelry | Imperial | BEESTON | a township-chapelry | Imperial | Bramley | township with railway station | Bartholomew | BRAMLEY | a village | Imperial | Burley | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew | BURLEY | a village and a chapelry | Imperial | Burmantofts | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | BURMANTOFTS | a chapelry | Imperial | Buslingthorpe | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | BUSLINGTHORPE | a chapelry | Imperial | Chapel Allerton | township | Bartholomew | Far Headingley | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | FAR-HEADINGLEY | a chapelry | Imperial | Farnley | township | Bartholomew | FARNLEY | a chapelry | Imperial | Gipton | hamlet | Bartholomew | GIPTON | a hamlet | Imperial | Harehill | hamlet | Bartholomew | HAREHILL | a hamlet | Imperial | Hatton Newsom | village | Bartholomew | HEADINGLEY | a village, a township, and a chapelry | Imperial | Headingley cum Burley | township | Bartholomew | Hough End | hamlet | Bartholomew | Hunslet | township and railway station | Bartholomew | Kirkstall | ecclesiastical district with railway station | Bartholomew | KNOSTROP | a village | Imperial | Leylands | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Little Holbeck | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Meanwood | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | MEANWOOD | a hamlet and a chapelry | Imperial | MILLSHAW | a hamlet | Imperial | NEWTON-POTTER | a township | Imperial | Newtown | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | NEWTOWN | a chapelry | Imperial | New Wortley | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Potter Newton | township | Bartholomew | Sheepscar | 2 ecclesiastical districts | Bartholomew | Stanningley | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | STANNINGLEY | a chapelry, with a village | Imperial | Temple Newsam | township and seat | Bartholomew | TEMPLENEWSAM | a township, with seven villages or hamlets | Imperial | Woodhouse | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | WOODHOUSE | a chapelry | Imperial | WOODSIDE | a chapelry | Imperial | Wortley | township | Bartholomew | WORTLEY (New) | a chapelry | Imperial | Wrangthorn | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | WRANGTHORN | a chapelry | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Leeds within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Leylands | 0 | 1 |
Brewery Field | 0 | 1 |
Sheepscar | 0 | 2 |
Little Holbeck | 0 | 1 |
Woodhouse | 0 | 2 |
Buslingthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Chapeltown | 0 | 1 |
Burmantofts | 0 | 2 |
New Wortley | 0 | 2 |
Knowsthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Wrangthorn | 0 | 2 |
Holbeck | 0 | 2 |
Burley | 0 | 2 |
Hunslet | 4 | 2 |
Potter Newton | 0 | 2 |
Beeston | 0 | 2 |
Wortley | 0 | 2 |
Osmondthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Headingley | 0 | 2 |
Stourton | 0 | 1 |