Yorkshire (85 pages found in this category)


Ledston Hall

Grade I listed former country house in West Yorkshire, now divided into residences.

Ledston Luck Colliery

Colliery nine miles east of Leeds and three miles north of Castleford on the Roman Ridge Road, sunk after coal had been proved under the Ledston Hall Estate in 1909.

Leeds arcades

Four Victorian shopping arcades built between 1878 and 1904, all listed buildings and still in use.

Leeds Cloth Halls

Six cloth halls have been built in Leeds since 1711, and the remains of two survive. Four were for white cloth, one for mixed or coloured cloth and one for cloth made by unapprenticed clothiers.

Leeds Pottery

Pottery established in 1770 in Hunslet, South Leeds notable for intricate pierced creamware known as Leedsware.

Lupset Hall

Small country house built in Lupset, West Riding of Yorkshire in1716, as a gentleman's residence for Richard Witton.

Mary Bolles

17th-century Yorkshire woman uniquely created a baronetess in her own right.

Mary Pannell

Woman associated with witchcraft at Ledston Hall in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Died in 1603, and is said to haunt the nearby woods.

Masbro’ boat disaster

Sixty-four people, mainly children, were drowned in the River Don in Masbrough, Yorkshire, on 5 July 1841 when the launch of a boat went wrong.

Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray was an engineer born in Newcastle on Tyne who became known for improving steam engines and building the first commercially successful steam locomotive.