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ceejaylufc wrote: Does anybody know the boundaries of Newtown, Leeds in the 1860's-1880's ?I have an ancestor living in Stanhope street, with their children being baptised at St. Andrew's and St. Simon's Church and am curious to know if the church and the street are within Newtown.Many thanks for any help Chris I think it would be safe to assume the Sheepscar beck would have divided Newtown with Mabgate in the Skinner Lane area.
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ceejaylufc wrote: Does anybody know the boundaries of Newtown, Leeds in the 1860's-1880's ?I have an ancestor living in Stanhope street, with their children being baptised at St. Andrew's and St. Simon's Church and am curious to know if the church and the street are within Newtown.Many thanks for any help Chris Stanhope Street was off Kirkstall Road and St Simon's street with St Simon's Church, off of it. Almost slap bang where the YTV stidios are / were.
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Thanks so much for telling me this - I have 4 of my 6 great great rellies baptised and living in Newtown but I have 2 baptised at St. Andrews and St. Simons and living in Stanhope Street. I have loads of my lot moving between savile green, quarry Hill and osmondthorpe but this lot are oddities, over the other end of the city - definitely mine as I have the baptism certificates butjust strange Once again, thanks ever so much.Chris
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ceejaylufc wrote: Does anybody know the boundaries of Newtown, Leeds in the 1860's-1880's ?Many thanks for any help Chris Perhaps this 1908 map will help?(Click on the red X to view.)
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Si wrote: ceejaylufc wrote: Does anybody know the boundaries of Newtown, Leeds in the 1860's-1880's ?Many thanks for any help Chris Perhaps this 1908 map will help?(Click on the red X to view.) These old maps are great. I love looking at them. The amount of houses crammed into small areas seems staggering now. From just a quick look at the map I saw some terrific street names, such as:-Friendly Street. Fertile Street. Recovery Street. Mushroom Street. Mushroom Place. Pendulum Street, which is next to Time Street. There will no doubt be many other great street names. They don't name them like those anymore!
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Here is Central Ward extracted from the same 1908 map. Its boundary is Becket Street to the east, Gibson Street, St Mary's Lane and Quarry Hill to the south, Gipton Beck - as PhilD said, to the west, and the northern extent of the Workhouse [St James'] to the north. While "Newtown" is marked on the map, it doesn't seem to be a defined area as such so some parts of it may well lay outside the strictly defind ward boundary [like across to the other side of Beckett Street].
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