New Blackpool.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 29 Aug, 2011 2:59 pm

I wonder if anyone knows why the New Blackpool area of Leeds is so named? It is a district between Wortley and Farnley. Apologies if this has been asked before in SL (or elsewhere) but I did try to find out. I did a search of the SL site and got lots of threads brought up, but some posts I saw in the likeliest threads did not bring up the reason for the New Blackpool name. A Google seach under New Blackpool+Leeds brought up 3,760,000 results and searching under Blackpool+Leeds only reduced that to 2,736,000 results!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 29 Aug, 2011 3:07 pm

There are several places like that around Leeds.Little London and Lincoln Green for example. I'm not sure of what connection though.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 29 Aug, 2011 3:15 pm

Cheers Phill. Your mention of Little London reminded me of something I have been meaning to ask on SL for some time. Every time I open the Old Maps UK website for Leeds the first map I get is always centred on Little London (Claypit Lane area to be more exact). That still happens even when I clear the cache so it sems unlikely to be opening the same webpage, though I'm not sure of that. I wonder therefore if Little London is classed as the centre of Leeds, at least for maps?

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon 29 Aug, 2011 3:27 pm

I wonder if the New Blackpool name is just a reference to the local series' of street names - Backpool ....., Lytham ....., Bangor ...., etc?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 29 Aug, 2011 3:39 pm

jim wrote: I wonder if the New Blackpool name is just a reference to the local series' of street names - Backpool ....., Lytham ....., Bangor ...., etc? Cheers jim. That would seem very likely. I wonder though why the streets were so named?

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Mon 29 Aug, 2011 4:56 pm

And why is the area around Gledhow/Lidgett lane known as Little Switzerland? http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35653128

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon 29 Aug, 2011 6:25 pm

Steep wooded hillside, threaded by winding narrow roads, stream, vivid imagination, property agent?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 29 Aug, 2011 6:28 pm

Chrism wrote: And why is the area around Gledhow/Lidgett lane known as Little Switzerland? http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35653128 Good one Chrism. I could have kept quiet and nobody would have known but embarrassingly to say it I did not know of that name! Red-faced me.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 29 Aug, 2011 6:32 pm

I must type faster as Jim's post came must have come in while I was still composing mine immediately above which I then posted before seeing Jim's post!

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Tue 30 Aug, 2011 10:30 am

Strange names. I live in what is called Nova Scotia, what the connection is I have no idea