24-487: Moortown may refer to: Moortown, Leeds , a suburb of Leeds, England Moortown (ward) , an electoral ward of Leeds City Council Moortown, Lincolnshire , England, a hamlet Moortown, County Tyrone , a small village in Northern Ireland Moortown, Isle of Wight , England, part of the village of Brighstone [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
48-667: A charity hospice founded by the Sisters of the Cross and Passion in 1978. It is named after St Gemma's School which formerly occupied the site, in turn named after Italian Saint Gemma Galgani . This is situated to the south of Moortown Corner on Harrogate Road. In 2017 it became a University Teaching Hospice in association with the University of Leeds to give instruction in palliative care for health professionals. St Gemma's Hospice operates 24 charity shops around Leeds. There
72-568: Is a Rugby Union football club. Moortown Golf Club hosted the 1929 Ryder Cup , but is well north of the Ring Road and is now in the Alwoodley ward. Moor Allerton Sports and Social Centre has bowls, tennis and indoor activities. North Leeds FC's home pitch is situated on Cranmer Bank, next to Moortown Social Club. As of July 2022 there are three Labour Councillors and one Labour MP who are responsible for raising concerns / issues from
96-471: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Moortown, Leeds Moortown is a suburb of Leeds , West Yorkshire , England . It is a civil parish and sits in the Moortown ward of Leeds City Council in the north east of the city. It is situated between Roundhay and Gledhow on the east and Weetwood on the west, with Chapel Allerton to
120-531: Is now Tunnel How Hill is visible from the Centre to the south-west. It was previously Pen-how-fyn , and a hamlet around what is now the Centre was Paenfynaen (where fynaen means settlement). Tunnel How Hill was referred to as Penny Fun in the 19th century and several houses in the vicinity used the name. There is a Penny Field nearby in Meanwood Park. To the north of the ring road and west of King Lane
144-405: Is served by First Leeds service 2, which is represented red on the 10-minute frequency Overground network. Less regularly, services 7A, 7S, 38, and 48 run through Moortown Corner. Harrogate Bus Company 's distinctive route 36 also serves Moortown Corner, currently as of August 2021 running between central Leeds and Harrogate every 15 minutes. Moor Allerton District Centre is adjacent to
168-511: Is the Moortown estate (west) and Cranmer Bank is part of the estate, named after the moor on which Moortown was situated. This has varied housing from the 1950s to recent along Black Moor road. There is a parade of shops on Cranmer Bank as well as Moortown Social Club at the top of the hill, along with St Stephen's Church ( C of E ). The main areas on the estate are Blackmoor, Tynwald, Deanswood, Scotland Wood, Cranmer Bank, Alderton and Saxon. To
192-543: The Moortown Plantation . A post office , petrol station and other shops are located on Harrogate Road at the northern end of Moortown. Moortown includes small estates of council housing around the junction of King Lane and the Moortown Ring Road. Moortown Corner is the junction between Street Lane and Harrogate Road, a local shopping area and geographical reference. The building known as
216-474: The Black Moor area: it is currently used by Showers of Mercy Ministries International, Lighthouse Chapel and Leeds Independent Seventh Day Adventist Church, but there are no regular Methodist services there. There are three mosques which also act as Muslim community centres, including one in the former "Lingfield" public house on Lingfield Hill, which opened in 2016. Moortown is home to St Gemma's Hospice,
240-546: The Corner House was built as a cinema (1938–1940), ballroom and restaurant but now contains shops. From 1968 to 2008 it contained a casino . Nearby is a large Marks and Spencer Simply Food supermarket which serves the surrounding area. Branches of Leeds Building Society and Virgin Money (formerly Yorkshire Bank ) can also be found at Moortown Corner. Halifax closed its local branch on 9 January 2024. Moortown Corner
264-692: The Jewish community in Leeds and district, with the only Kosher restaurant in Leeds and providing offices for some Jewish organisations. The Church of England parish church is St John the Evangelist on the corner of Harrogate Road and the ring road; the Catholic church is the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. There is also a Baptist church on King Lane. Moortown Methodist Church Centre is located in
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#1732797751912288-752: The Leeds Union Operative Land and Building Society which formed in 1845. The society was renamed to Leeds Building Society in September 2005. It has 65 branches across the UK, with 29 located in Yorkshire, and previously had two international branches located in Gibraltar and Dublin , Ireland. The head office is located on Sovereign Street in Leeds city centre . It should not be confused with
312-407: The Moortown Ring Road, and overlooked by a Water Tower. Scott Hall Road (A61) and Harrogate Road lead southwards to Leeds city centre. The Leeds City Council boundary for Moortown ward is the Ring Road, with properties to the north in the Alwoodley ward. The Church of England parish includes areas north of the Ring Road. Woodland north and south of the Ring Road and by the water tower is called
336-480: The Moortown community. Moortown Community Group has a history on interacting with local councillors on behalf the local community, for example in working on the Council's Neighbourhood Design Statement. Leeds Building Society Leeds Building Society (formerly known as the Leeds and Holbeck Building Society ) is a building society based in Leeds , England. It serves approximately 719,000 customers across
360-626: The Moortown estate (west), north of the Ring Road and west of the junction with King Lane, which opened in 1982. Primarily a shopping centre, with a large Sainsbury's , and a Homebase , it also includes a public library . A public house, the King on the Lane , was called the Penny Fun until 2019; its name relates to the history of the area as follows. The word 'pen' comes from the Celtic for 'hill'. What
384-609: The United Kingdom, who together hold £9.9 billion in savings balances and is the fifth largest building society in the UK. It is a member of the Building Societies Association . At December 2022, the Society had total assets of more than £25 billion. The society was registered as the Leeds and Holbeck (Permanent) Building Society in 1875, though the society originated from a group called
408-586: The building into a maternity and child welfare centre. When clinical services were moved to more modern surroundings in 2012, Leafield House was refurbished to provide office space. A small 1990 development low-rise flats off Shadwell Lane, in woods known as Blackwoods, part of the Forest of Leeds . The property was originally a large private estate called "Blackwood". It was acquired by the City of Leeds sometime prior to 1963 and converted into several large flats with
432-773: The defunct Leeds Permanent Building Society , which was also known as The Leeds , which merged with the Halifax Building Society on 1 August 1995. On 1 August 2006, following approval by the Mercantile members and confirmation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Leeds Building Society merged with Mercantile Building Society , in North Shields , an area of North Tyneside , in Tyne and Wear . The Leeds Building Society
456-671: The extensive grounds preserved until the subsequent development of low rise flats in the 1990s. Moortown and neighbouring Alwoodley are the main centres of the Leeds Jewish community. There are three synagogues in the Moortown area: the Beth Hamidrash Hagadol Synagogue on Street Lane, Etz Chaim Synagogue on Harrogate Road and the UHC Synagogue on Shadwell Lane. The Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Community Centre opened in 2005, providing facilities for
480-696: The north of the ring road and east of King Lane is the Lingfield Estate comprising mainly semi-detached tenant properties and council flats. To the south of the ring road and east of King Lane is the Queenshill estate, mainly low-rise flats, which was opened in 1962 by Sir Keith Joseph . This area contains a small row of shops, a fire station, Moortown Baptist Church, and the offices of the Leeds Jewish Housing Association. A smaller development of public housing lies to
504-507: The owner of Goodall, Backhouse & Co., who described his profession as a “wholesale druggist and manufacturer of the celebrated Yorkshire Relish". Millions of bottles of Yorkshire Relish – a piquant, cold sauce – were manufactured in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Leafield House was bought in 1951 and two years later, the Leeds Corporation Health Committee submitted a planning application to turn
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#1732797751912528-426: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moortown&oldid=1240319590 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
552-405: The south of the ring road and west of King Lane, essentially in the grounds of a former mansion, Leafield House, later Leafield Clinic, where the former Leeds North Clinical Commissioning Group 's offices were located, and which is now a nursery. Leafield House was built around 1873 and was known initially as Albert House. In the 1920s, it was the family home of William Powell Bowman (1862-1955),
576-690: The south, and Alwoodley to the north. It is synonymous with Moor Allerton , and institutions in the area use both names. Moortown lies in the LS17 postcode district, which was reported to contain the most expensive housing area in Yorkshire and the Humber by The Times in 2007. The suburb is located around the junction of the (north-south) Harrogate Road A61 road and the Leeds Outer Ring Road (A6120) (west-east), at that point called
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