Historic Far Headingley

Far Headingley Greetings Card, circa 1915

Headingley Moor

Ordnance Survey 1851

Otley Road, 1904

Shaw Lane, from Otley Road, 1920

Holly Bank, Otley Road, 1917

Holly Dene, Otley Road

Victoria Terrace, Otley Road

Otley Road, junction with Cottage Road, circa 1900-1904

Otley Road, junction with Cottage Road, 1900

Cottage Road, 1911

Otley Road, 1911

Three Horse Shoes Inn, 1900

Three Horse Shoes Inn, 1926

By the Three Horseshoes

Weetwood Lane, circa 1920

Weetwood Lane, 1930

Weetwood Lane

5-7 Weetwood Lane (now demolished), circa 1910

Weetwood Lane, 1930

Back Bailey's Place, Weetwood Lane, circa 1930

Whiteley's Garage, Weetwood Lane, junction with Moor Road, undated

Moor Road, from Weetwood Lane, circa 1890

Victoria Buildings, Weetwood Lane, junction with Moor Road, 1920

Victoria Buildings, Weetwood Lane, junction with Moor Road, 1930

Weetwood Lane Forge, circa 1956 (now demolished)

Weetwood Lane Forge with blacksmith W.A. Hartley, circa 1956

Rowling Place (now demolished), Weetwood Lane, 1954

Rowling Place (now demolished), Weetwood Lane, 1930

Hollin Lane School, Weetwood Lane, circa 1920

Electricity Sub-Station, Moor Road, 1932

Tomlinson Dairy, Moor Road, 1935

Corner of Oddy Place, Moor Road

Mansfield Garage, Oddy Place, Moor Road, 1971

Moorville, Moor Road, 1976

Tetley Hall, Moor Road, circa 1950

Moor Road, junction with Cottage Road, 1906

50 Cottage Road

Headingley Picture House, Cottage Road, pre 1937

Horse Tram, Headingley Depot, 1880

St Chad’s Vicarage beyond © Leeds Transport Historical Society

Horse Tram, Headingley Depot, 1899

Outside the Woodman Inn © Leeds Transport Historical Society

Horse Tram, Headingley Depot, 1899

Old Headingley Depot and St Chad's Parade, Otley Road, 1934

New Tram Depot, 1935

Tram No 4, route 3, at New Headingley Depot, circa 1935

Woodman Hotel, Otley Road, undated

The Woodman Hotel, Otley Road

Moorlands School, St Chad's Villas, 126-130 Otley Road

The Villas are now Ascot Grange Hotel

Reservoir Hill, Otley Road, circa 1900

Reservoir Hill, Otley Road, circa 1906

Far Headingley

Ordnance Survey 1909

Shaw Lane, from Otley Road, circa 1890

Shaw Lane, 1904

Shaw Lane, 1917

Grove Lane, 1925

Burton Cresent, circa 1900

Burton Crescent, 1907

Claremont Drive, 1935

Grove Lane, from Shaw Lane, 1924

Grove Lane, 1923

Back Grove Gardens, Grove Lane, 1924

Oakfield Terrace, Grove Lane

Oakfield Terrace, 1907

Oakfield Terrace, Grove Lane, 1941

Brookfield Terrace

Brookfield Terrace, 1907

Far Headingley

Ordnance Survey 1938

Kirkstall Grange, circa 1909

City of Leeds Training College, Beckett Park, 1920s

Entrance to the Beckett's Park estate, under construction, 1932

Entrance to the Beckett's Park estate, and Lodge (now 151 Otley Road), 1932

Horse Trough, Otley Road

War Memorial 1936

The Garden of Rest, 1940

St Chad's Church, 1881

St Chad's Church, 1926

St Chad's Church

St Chads Church Vicarage

(demolished 1964)

St Chad's School, Otley Road, circa 1910

St Chad's School

Church Wood Avenue, circa 1950

Drummonds, Church Woods and Weetwood Filter Beds, 1926

Before Victoria, a lane led north from Headingley village, across Headingley Moor common land, with the New Grange estate to the west; on the far edge of the Moor, where the lane forked to Moor Grange and to Adel, stood a hamlet, sometimes called Headingley Moor Side. An Enclosure Art of 1829 enabled the Moor to be carved up for private development, and the hamlet expanded: Cottage Road and Moor Road were laid and the Three Horseshoes and the New Inn opened. By 1868, the village warranted a church, and St Chad’s was built; the new parish of Far Headingley gave its name to the village, which continued to develop eastwards across the Moor, towards Meanwood Beck. Just before the Great War, the Grange itself became part of a training college, while its park became Beckett Park; between the wars, new estates were built, especially west of Otley Road, in the former grounds of the Grange.

For an outline description of the area, go to Far Headingley Village; and also, Listed Buildings. See also Claremonts, Highburys and Moor Parks, and also Beckett’s Park and Church Woods & Drummonds, and the Listed Buildings of each. Explore the area by taking A Walk around Far Headingley. Read more about the history of Far Headingley in David Hall, Far Headingley, Weetwood and West Park, Far Headingley Village Society (2000).

Acknowledgements: David Hall for all his advice and support; Ian Ballantine; Far Headingley Village Society; Leeds Library and Information Service; Leeds University Library, Special Collections, Godfrey Bingley Collection; The Thoresby Society; Francis Frith and Company; Leeds Transport Historical Society; Helen Pickering.

Some of these photos are copyright and should not be reproduced without the owner's permission. Every effort has been made to contact all copyright owners. We would be pleased to rectify at the earliest opportunity any omissions and errors brought to our notice.

See also Beckett Park in the Past.
For photos of the area now, go to the Far Headingley gallery.
For other neighbourhoods in the past, see Historic Headingley.

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