Gledhow
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Gledhow is a suburb of north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, situated east of Chapel Allerton and west of Roundhay. (It is within the Roundhay City Council Ward.) A major feature of the area is Gledhow Valley, a strip of mixed deciduous woodland with a beck and lake. A bathhouse dating from 1671, the Gipton Spa, is in the woods. Running through the valley is Gledhow Valley Road, built in 1926.[1]
Gledhow Lane crosses Gledhow Valley Road and on the Eastern side is a steep road up from the valley. The residential area near the top is known locally as "Little Switzerland".[2] In the area at the top of Gledhow Lane is Gledhow Hall, a 17th-century mansion house and grade II listed building, once the home of James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale. It is now private flats. J. M. W. Turner painted a watercolour view of Gledhow Hall in about 1816; he "stayed at the Hall for some days, gathering sketches".[3][4] Nearby is another Georgian country house, Gledhow Mount Mansion. Its surrounding land, like that of Gledhow Hall, was subdivided in recent decades.
Within the boundary of Gledhow is Gledhow Primary School on Lidgett Lane.
There is also Roundhay High School and Kermackie primary school adjacent to each other off Gledhow Lane easternmost of the area and to the northernmost of the area are Allerton Grange High School and Moor Allerton Hall Primary School, also adjacent to each other.
Gledhow is frequently served by bus services 3/13 on one side of the area (Brackenwood Drive) and 3A/13A on the other (Lidgett Lane) and the local BUPA hospital. There is also the hourly service 38, which is among the services alternatively operated by First Leeds and Yorkshire Tiger.
Notable people
Leeds' only second world war recipient of the Victoria Cross, Arthur Louis Aaron was born in Gledhow.[5]
Gallery
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Gipton Spa bath-house
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Lidgett Towers
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The Highwood public houses
References
- ↑ Friends of Gledhow Valley Woods
- ↑ Leodis photographic archive
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- ↑ Gledhow Valley Conservation Area Appraisal
- ↑ Arthur Louis Aaron Statue, Eastgate
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