Changing Names

The origins and history of placenames, nicknames, local slang, etc.
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LS1 wrote: I'm sure before all the houses were built in Chapeltown, it is known as "chapeltown Moor" on old maps. I'll have to dig out where i found this unless someone beats me to it! Bet Tasa or Si beats you......Its a race!
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Go on then where's....Camp FieldNew ScarboroPottery FieldMintManns FieldBeechwoodHoggs fieldGravelythorpebentleySilver roydNew BlackpoolBagby FieldsNew HuddersfieldIn Leeds...........................

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The Parksider wrote: Go on then where's....Camp FieldNew ScarboroPottery FieldMintManns FieldBeechwoodHoggs fieldGravelythorpebentleySilver roydNew BlackpoolBagby FieldsNew HuddersfieldIn Leeds........................... new Huddersfield was Woodhouse
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LS1 wrote: I'm sure before all the houses were built in Chapeltown, it is known as "chapeltown Moor" on old maps. I'll have to dig out where i found this unless someone beats me to it! Yes your right about the Moor - Thoresby refers to Horse racing on Chapel Town Moor - I've never seen it referred to as "Chapel Allerton Moor"
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The Parksider wrote: Go on then where's....Camp FieldNew ScarboroPottery FieldMintManns FieldBeechwoodHoggs fieldGravelythorpebentleySilver roydNew BlackpoolBagby FieldsNew HuddersfieldIn Leeds........................... Gravelythorpe (still there really), once a picturesque valley south of the railway line behind Seacroft hospital, home to a small farm and 'tea rooms' which also sold ale, supporting the colliers from the pits and bell pits at the western end adjacent to the small quarry,Fell foul of it's own value as a hole in the ground which became a massive Council landfill site, a disgrace in any language. Now reclaimed and restored, what ever that means, as an artificial green space and part of an urban trail.

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New Scarboro=bramley/swinnow?
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The Parksider wrote: Go on then where's....Camp FieldNew ScarboroPottery FieldMintManns FieldBeechwoodHoggs fieldGravelythorpebentleySilver roydNew BlackpoolBagby FieldsNew HuddersfieldIn Leeds........................... Camp Field - Moor Allerton - near sainsbury'sNew Scarboro ? Armley near the prison?Pottery Field - where Crown point retail park is/leathley RoadMint - Holbeck - Ninevah rd areaManns Field ?Beechwood - Between Burley and HeadingleyHoggs Field - no never heard of itGravelythorpe - Whitkirk - towards cross gatesBentley - Meanwood near former Becketts armsSilver Royd - Wortley (west) - there's a Silver Royd SchoolNew Blackpool - wortley - Cow Close Road areaBagby Fields Woodhouse - near UniversityNew Huddersfield - no never heard of it.All from memory with a bit of double checking on my A-Z!!!
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The Parksider wrote: Go on then where's....Camp FieldNew ScarboroPottery FieldMintManns FieldBeechwoodHoggs fieldGravelythorpebentleySilver roydNew BlackpoolBagby FieldsNew HuddersfieldIn Leeds........................... Bagby Fields was off St Mark's Road and behind Blenheim Walk, where Leeds College of Art is now. My best friend from primary school lived in Bagby Road.    

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cnosni wrote: [In Leeds........................... new Huddersfield was Woodhouse Wins a cigar

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chameleon wrote: The Parksider wrote: In Leeds........................... Gravelythorpe (still there really), once a picturesque valley south of the railway line behind Seacroft hospital, home to a small farm and 'tea rooms' which also sold ale, supporting the colliers from the pits and bell pits at the western end adjacent to the small quarry,Fell foul of it's own value as a hole in the ground which became a massive Council landfill site, a disgrace in any language. Now reclaimed and restored, what ever that means, as an artificial green space and part of an urban trail. Wind a box of king edwards, one for the answer rest for the nice background...

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