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Beeston, Leeds

Beeston is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England located on a hill about 2 miles (3 km) south of the city centre.

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The origins of Beeston can be traced back to the medieval period. It remained a small settlement until the latter part of the Victorian era when it became a primarily residential area for people working in Leeds and surrounding industrial areas like Holbeck and Hunslet.

At the time of the 2011 Census, Beeston had a population of 22,187 (which included Holbeck). Some parts of the area, around Cross Flatts Park, suffer from relatively high levels of deprivation, while areas to the centre and south are generally considered more affluent. Beeston is home to the Leeds United football club stadium on Elland Road and Hunslet rugby league club.

Etymology edit

The name Beeston is first attested in the Domesday Book, in the form Bestone. The name seems to come from Old English *bēos 'bent-grass' (L. Agrostis) and tūn 'estate, village'. Thus it once meant 'estate characterised by bent-grass'.[2]

The northern area of Beeston, situated on a hillside facing north to the centre of Leeds, came in the nineteenth century to be called Beeston Hill. This area was formerly called Cat Beeston (and variant spellings), a name first attested in 1398 as Catbeston and Cattbeston. The Cat element is also found in a local field-name, Cadtheweit (whose second element comes from Old Norse þveit, meaning 'clearing'), attested in 1202. The Cat element could come from the Old English word catt ('cat, wild-cat') or from a personal name Cada. Recent scholarship prefers the latter interpretation, in which case Cat Beeston once meant 'Cada's estate characterised by bent-gress', while Cadtheweit meant 'Cada's clearing'.[3]: 24 

To the west of Beeston lies Beeston Royds, whose name is first attested (as Beyston Royds) in 1633. The royds element comes from the Old English word rod ('clearing').[3]: 25 

Another district of Beeston is the Cross Flatts area. This name is first attested in 1636, as Crossflatts and other spellings. The Middle English word flat meant 'piece of level ground, field', but the precise significance of 'cross' is unclear. It is thought to refer to some cross-shaped pattern of field divisions.[3]: 40–41 

History edit

The origin of the settlement is likely to be Anglo-Saxon.[4] Beeston is first mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book, when it had recently been granted to Ilbert de Lacy (1045–93); in 1066 it had been worth 40 shillings (£2), but in 1086 it was considered waste, presumably because of the Harrying of the North.[5] It was one of the ten 'out-townships' of the Parish of Leeds until the parish was broken up in the 1840s-50s.

In the medieval period, Beeston was associated with sheep-farming: the monks of Kirkstall Abbey grazed 240 sheep there. Founding Drax Priory in the 1130s, William Paynel granted it land in Beeston. A small hospital seems to have been founded in the township around 1233, and a chapel dedicated to St Mary the Virgin may also have been founded in the 13th century.[5]

The oldest buildings in Beeston today date to the 15th century. Cad Beeston (also Cad-Beeston, Cat Beeston, Cat-Beeston) manor house has been dated by dendrochronology to about 1420, and is a grade II* listed building; recently used as private offices, it is now a private dwelling, with no public access.[6] Parts of Stank Hall Barn, a grade II* listed scheduled ancient monument originally built for the storage of crops, have been dated to between 1448 and 1490.[7][8]

By the early 17th century the area had a reputation for manufacturing bone lace, and by the middle of the century, coal-mining was underway in the area.[5] According to David Thornton,

in December 1688 rumours abounded in the town [of Leeds] that an army of Roman Catholics were ravaging the surrounding area. Ralph Thoresby recorded, 'Beeston is actually burnt, and only some escaped to bring the doleful tidings! The drums beat, the bells rang backward, the women shrieked, and some doleful consternation seized upon all persons ... (B)lessed be God! The terror disappeared, it being a false alarm, taken from some drunken people.'[5]

Between 1740 and 1820, the Leeds-Elland and Dewsbury-Leeds turnpike roads were built through Beeston; nationalised in the 1870s these roads remain as Elland Road and Dewsbury Road respectively. By 1822, Beeston had a population of 1,670.[9]

Until the 19th century, Beeston had been a small mining village situated on a hill overlooking Leeds. However, during the Industrial Revolution, land that had been occupied by open pits, as well as land formerly utilised for farming, was snapped up for high density residential development.[10] By 1872, Beeston is recorded as having a population of 2,547 with 537 houses, a railway station and a post office,[11] and 'by the end of the 19th century Beeston was predominantly a working class community living in back-to-backs'.[5] Beeston was a township and civil parish 1866–1904, then was absorbed into Holbeck civil parish before this was absorbed into Leeds in 1925.

On the night of 14 March and early hours of 15 March 1941, during the Second World War, Leeds received its worst night of German aerial bombing. Beeston had more bombs dropped on it than any other district of the city and although Flaxton Terrace was damaged during the night time air raid, escaped with the less damage than most other areas of Leeds with nearly all the other bombs landing on Cross Flatts Park. In his 2005 poem "Shrapnel", Tony Harrison, who was in Beeston on the night of the raid, speculates whether this was an act of heroism by the German pilot, a theory that has been explored ever since the raid.[12] Holbeck Cemetery, in Beeston, also features prominently in Harrison's 1985 poem "V".[citation needed]

Beeston was formerly home to card and board game manufacturer Waddingtons, though the factory was vacated in the 1990s, and is now home to Nampak Cartons.[citation needed]

In 2006, the district was the setting for much of the film Mischief Night.[citation needed]

Geography and demographics edit

 
Looking towards Leeds city centre from Beeston Hill

Beeston is an inner-city area located close to Leeds city centre. It is severed from the areas to the north by the M621 motorway, separated from Middleton by Middleton Park and from Cottingley by the Leeds Outer Ring Road.

Beeston can be described as three distinct areas. Beeston - Parkside and Cross Flatts area and Beeston Hill are separated by Cross Flatts Park which runs between Dewsbury Road and Town Street: Beeston Hill to the east, and Parkside and Cross Flatts to the west. The distinction between these two areas has probably existed since medieval times when they were two separate manors.[4] Beeston - Elland Road and Millshaw is primarily industrial and centred on Elland Road to the west of the area.

Beeston - Parkside and Cross Flatts area edit

The Parkside and Cross Flatts area of Beeston, sometimes locally known as Beeston Village, is centred on a shopping centre comprising a Nisa food store and a number of smaller shops. Housing in this part of Beeston is made up of almost equal proportions of late Victorian and early-20th-century terraced housing to the east of Old Lane, and newer semi-detached family and housing association properties to the west.[13] To the south side of Dewsbury Road, there are significant areas of industrial premises.

Indicators for health, economic activity and community safety in this area are broadly consistent with averages for the City of Leeds as a whole.[13]

Beeston Hill area edit

 
Tempest Road, Beeston Hill

Beeston Hill is largely made up of areas of older Victoria terraces and newer social housing, which comprises around a third of the housing stock in the area.[14] In April 2008, a £93 million PFI scheme to build 700 private and housing association dwellings and regenerate some existing stock was announced.[15] As a particularly deprived area, Beeston Hill along with Holbeck was the beneficiary of Objective 2 European funding. Beeston Hill has a relatively high level of empty housing as well as a number of significant unoccupied commercial premises. Beeston Hill has a significant ethnic minority population, with around 40% of the population from BME Communities.[14]

The area suffers from a high level of deprivation, with indicators for health, economic activity and community safety substantially worse than for the City of Leeds as a whole.[14]

 
The Junction pub and Crescent Grange in Beeston Hill

Beeston - Elland Road and Millshaw Area edit

The west of Beeston around Elland Road has significant amounts of industrial estates, with a substantial amount of mainly semi-detached and terraced housing to the western edge of the Parkside and Cross Flatts area. This also forms much of the Old Village side of Beeston, as can be seen in many of the houses along Town Street/Milshaw.

Transport edit

Railway edit

 
The former railway station at Beeston in 1961

Beeston has a main-line railway line running along its western edge along which all services between Leeds and London King's Cross and London St Pancras run; however, there are no stations along it, as Beeston station closed to passengers in 1953.

The nearest railway station is Cottingley, which is just under a mile away from the Town Street end of Beeston. Services between Leeds and Huddersfield are operated by TransPennine Express, stopping at Morley, Batley, Dewsbury, Ravensthorpe, Mirfield and Deighton.[16]

Buses edit

Beeston is served by a number of bus services along Dewsbury Road, Elland Road and Town Street, operated primarily by First Leeds and Arriva Yorkshire; these include:[17]

  • A Park and Ride site to Leeds has been built opposite Elland Road police station
  • First services 2, 12, 75 and 86 link much of Beeston with Middleton, Belle Isle and Hunslet
  • Service 65 links much of Beeston with Morley and Gildersome
  • Services 51 and 52 link areas close to Elland Road with Morley
  • Services 200 and 201 link the Dewsbury Road/White Rose side of Beeston to Morley
  • The frequent No. 1 bus service largely follows the route of the former Leeds Tramway route 5 through Beeston; it continues beyond Leeds to Lawnswood/West Park.

Roads edit

Beeston Hill and Beeston are severed from Leeds by the M621 and therefore benefit from very good links with the M621 motorway, as well as the M62 which runs close to Beeston to the south of Morley.

Several taxi companies serve Beeston, including Beeston Line, Central Cars, Amber (who acquired South Leeds and Gee Gee Cars) and South East Cars.[18]

Economy edit

 
The Spinning Wheel pub

Much of Beeston's traditional heavy industry and fabrication works have closed throughout the last forty years. However, there are substantial areas of industrial and commercial development around Elland Road and to the south of Dewsbury Road and Beeston is surrounded by areas which have become popular with businesses, such as Leeds city centre, Tingley and many of the business districts along the south side of the River Aire. The neighbouring White Rose Shopping Centre employs thousands of full- and part-time staff.

 
The Co-op on Old Lane

Education edit

Beeston is home to the Beeston Centre of the Leeds City College (formerly Joseph Priestley College) and Elliott Hudson College. Beeston has one secondary school, Cockburn School which is a specialist arts college.[19]

Matthew Murray High School situated between Beeston and Holbeck closed down in 2004 and was merged with Merlyn Rees High School in Belle Isle, to form South Leeds High School in Belle Isle. In September 2009 South Leeds High School was reopened as the South Leeds Academy.[20]

In September 2017, South Leeds Academy was renamed and rebranded as Cockburn John Charles Academy, as the Cockburn MAT opened a new school. There are seven primary schools in the area.[citation needed]

Local facilities and attractions edit

Beeston has a range of facilities. It has two large health centres, Elland Road stadium and the John Charles Centre for Sport. Leeds city centre is a short distance away and the M1 and M62 motorways are easily accessed. Cross Flatts Park has many facilities, which include 5-a-side football pitches, tennis courts, two separate play areas one for older children and one for younger children and a bowling green.

Stadiums edit

 
Elland Road Stadium

Beeston is home to two stadiums:

  • Elland Road, home of Leeds United AFC, has a 39,640 capacity, all-seater stadium[21] on Elland Road, adjacent to the M621 in the north of Beeston.
  • The South Leeds Stadium, part of the John Charles Centre for Sport is situated on Middleton Grove (off Dewsbury Road) on the southern edge of Beeston. This is home to Hunslet rugby league club, as well as hosting athletics and aquatic sports in the new Aquatic Centre (the replacement for the Leeds International Swimming Pool); this opened in October 2008 and provides an Olympic standard swimming pool and diving pool. The centre also has indoor bowling, indoor Tennis Centre, athletics stadium, 5-a-side football pitches, rugby pitches and outdoor gym equipment.
 
South Leeds Stadium, at the John Charles Centre for Sport

Cross Flatts Park edit

Cross Flatts Park covers an area of 44 acres (17.8 hectares)[22] in the centre of Beeston. While the park formerly suffered from neglect and had a high crime rate, through the work of the Council and community groups such as Friends of Cross Flatts Park and Beeston in Bloom the park has been cleaned up and made safer and more welcoming.[23]

The park has a large multi-use games area which includes five-a-side football pitches, basketball courts and tennis courts, while the park boasts an artificial cricket pitch, a children's play area and outdoor gym equipment. The park is the venue for the Beeston Festival which takes place annually in June, and in summer and school holidays is host to numerous activities for young people. The park hosts a weekly 5 km Parkrun every Saturday morning at 9am, over 1,000 runners have taken part in the event since it began on 30 March 2013.

Holbeck Cemetery edit

 
Guinea Graves

Holbeck Cemetery in Beeston opened in 1857 and closed to general burials in the 1940s. During the period it was operational, thousands of people were buried there with many in 'guinea graves' with several unrelated people buried in the same plot. The graves were so called for the shared headstones on which a single-line inscription cost one guinea (21 shillings).

Henry Rowland Marsden, the Victorian industrialist and former mayor of Leeds, is buried in Holbeck Cemetery where his family grave is marked by a Grade II-listed memorial.[24]

The poem "V" by Tony Harrison, published in 1985, describes a visit to Holbeck Cemetery and his reaction to finding his parents' tombstones vandalised.

Greenhouse edit

 
A plaque commemorating the opening of Shaftesbury House, Leeds, 15 December 1938.

In 2008 Shaftesbury House, a working men's hostel designed for the council by George C. Robb in 1936, was converted by Citu to the Greenhouse, an eco-friendly housing project. The building had been empty for a number of years and had previously been earmarked for demolition.

The development, which includes 172 homes, office space and other facilities, is one of the UK's first low-carbon housing developments and incorporates wind turbines, solar panels and ground source heating as well as energy efficient materials and rainwater and greywater recycling. The development has won a large number of awards, including, in 2011, the Regeneration and Renewal Magazine Regeneration Award for Sustainability, with judges praising the holistic way it addressed sustainability and provides real regeneration benefits to a deprived area.[25] Robb Street and Avenue are likely named after its architect George C. Robb, who was chief housing architect for RAH Livett, Leeds Housing Director and later City Architect.

Religious sites edit

 
Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha (Leeds) UK Gurdwara on Ladypit Lane (formerly Ringtons tea-packing factory).

Beeston has at least ten churches of several denominations including Church of England, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Baptist. The Anglican churches of St Mary on Town Street and St Luke on Malvern Road were constructed in the 1870s, though the former is on the site of a much older church. The more modern church of St David Waincliffe on Dewsbury Road, constructed in the 1960s was designed by Geoffrey Davy[26] and won a Hoffman Wood (Leeds) Gold Medal for Architecture.[27]

There are three mosques in Beeston, all located within the Beeston Hill area. There is also a Sikh Gurdwara.

Governance edit

Most parts of Beeston are located within the Beeston and Holbeck ward of Leeds City Council, which has since its creation in 2004 consistently been represented by Labour councillors.

Parts of Beeston Hill to the north of Cross Flatts Park are located within the Hunslet and Riverside ward. This was created in 2018, and largely corresponds to its predecessor City and Hunslet, created in 2004. This was too has invariably returned Labour councillors since 2004.

Hilary Benn (Labour) has been MP since 1999 when he won the seat following the death of Derek Fatchett who had been MP for Leeds Central since 1983. Before the 1997 general election, Beeston was part of the Morley and Leeds South constituency, represented from its creation in 1983 to 1992 by Merlyn Rees and from 1992 to 1997 by John Gunnell. Before the creation of the Morley and South Leeds constituency the area was part of the Leeds South constituency represented until 1963 by Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 to his death in 1963, after whom a primary school in the area is named.[28][29]

Notable people edit

The playwright Willis Hall attended Cockburn High School in Beeston[30] as did the academic and author of The Uses of Literacy, Richard Hoggart.[31] The poet Tony Harrison was brought up on Tempest Road and went to what was then Cross Flatts county primary school.[32] More recently, the actress Holly Kenny who starred in the BBC drama serial Waterloo Road was a pupil at the school.

The musician and bandleader Ivy Benson grew up in Beeston, where her former house on Cemetery Road is marked with a blue plaque.[33]

Former England and Leeds United footballer Paul Madeley was born in Beeston.[34]

Former international rugby league and rugby union star Jason Robinson went to Cross Flatts Park Middle School and Matthew Murray High School, and began his Rugby League career with Hunslet Hawks.[35]

Leigh Francis, famous for his character Keith Lemon, was born in Beeston.[36]

London bombings edit

Beeston was the focus of press attention following 7 July 2005 London bombings when it was revealed that two of the four bombers had lived in the area. On 12 July, two properties in Beeston were raided by police in connection with the attacks.[37] According to West Yorkshire Police, a significant amount of explosive material was found in the raids and a controlled explosion was carried out at one of the properties.

After-effects edit

The link between 7 July bombings and Beeston became known several days after the event took place. When news began to emerge of the Beeston link to the attacks, community and religious groups from across Beeston came together to condemn the atrocities.[38] There was a significant pulling together of people across the community with two Beeston Together for Peace marches being held. Each were joined by hundreds of people, some as the procession passed. The second procession ended at Millennium Square in Leeds city centre, uniting with people from other parts of Leeds for an interfaith vigil.[39]

Beeston in the press edit

Following the London press, Beeston was thrust into the local, regional, national and international press, with journalists from as far away as North America and Japan arriving in the area to cover the reaction to the events of the previous week.[40] The tone of the reporting was mixed, some sympathetic to the area, many even describing Beeston as a 'leafy suburb', whereas others painted a less salubrious picture of Beeston.

The Guardian

Writing a year after the bombings, a journalist from The Guardian visited Beeston with the aim of going "beyond the stereotypical pictures of veiled women and bearded men strolling past dilapidated buildings." The article reported that the community in Beeston had on the whole condemned the attacks.[41]

NBC

American news network NBC described Beeston as "a drab and derelict neighbourhood in Leeds, three hours north of London, where three of the four London suicide bombers were born and raised". The article later stated, "Beeston, a poor racially mixed community, is lined with small row houses built in another era to house the factory workers who were one of the cornerstones of the British industry. The neighbourhood has long accommodated immigrant communities — from Asia in the 1960s to Eastern Europe and Africa today. Reportedly, almost half the households now are on some sort of state assistance."[42]

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times described Beeston as an "ethnically mixed, downtrodden suburb". Setting the scene, it also said "Peeping from lacy curtains in red-brick rowhouses, tattooed white men, turbaned Sikhs and olive-skinned women in gauzy headscarves shared what they knew."[43]

International Herald Tribune

One year after the London Bombings, the International Herald Tribune described Beeston as a "grim northern neighbourhood". The paper also said "It is a poor and racially mixed neighbourhood of back-to-back row houses with a population of just a few thousand where successive waves of immigrants from Asia in the 1960s, and now from East Europe and Africa, have spread a tangled overlay on a cityscape forged in Victorian Britain. The bright pink and turquoise saris of Asian women offer chromatic relief from drab brick homes".[44]

Socialist Worker

The Socialist Worker focused on Beeston's positive aspect and reported on the 'Beeston United for Peace' vigil, organised by Beeston members of the Stop the War Coalition. The 150 strong march from Hyde Park was also covered.[45]

Location grid edit

See also edit

References edit

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For other places with the same name see Beeston Beeston is a suburb of Leeds West Yorkshire England located on a hill about 2 miles 3 km south of the city centre BeestonView over BeestonBeestonShow map of LeedsBeestonLocation within West YorkshireShow map of West YorkshirePopulation22 187 2011 Census 1 OS grid referenceSE294313Metropolitan boroughCity of LeedsMetropolitan countyWest YorkshireRegionYorkshire and the HumberCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townLEEDSPostcode districtLS11Dialling code0113PoliceWest YorkshireFireWest YorkshireAmbulanceYorkshireUK ParliamentLeeds CentralList of places UK England Yorkshire 53 46 34 N 1 33 21 W 53 7761 N 1 5559 W 53 7761 1 5559The origins of Beeston can be traced back to the medieval period It remained a small settlement until the latter part of the Victorian era when it became a primarily residential area for people working in Leeds and surrounding industrial areas like Holbeck and Hunslet At the time of the 2011 Census Beeston had a population of 22 187 which included Holbeck Some parts of the area around Cross Flatts Park suffer from relatively high levels of deprivation while areas to the centre and south are generally considered more affluent Beeston is home to the Leeds United football club stadium on Elland Road and Hunslet rugby league club Contents 1 Etymology 2 History 3 Geography and demographics 3 1 Beeston Parkside and Cross Flatts area 3 2 Beeston Hill area 3 3 Beeston Elland Road and Millshaw Area 4 Transport 4 1 Railway 4 2 Buses 4 3 Roads 5 Economy 6 Education 7 Local facilities and attractions 7 1 Stadiums 7 2 Cross Flatts Park 7 3 Holbeck Cemetery 7 4 Greenhouse 8 Religious sites 9 Governance 10 Notable people 11 London bombings 11 1 After effects 11 2 Beeston in the press 12 Location grid 13 See also 14 References 15 External linksEtymology editThe name Beeston is first attested in the Domesday Book in the form Bestone The name seems to come from Old English beos bent grass L Agrostis and tun estate village Thus it once meant estate characterised by bent grass 2 The northern area of Beeston situated on a hillside facing north to the centre of Leeds came in the nineteenth century to be called Beeston Hill This area was formerly called Cat Beeston and variant spellings a name first attested in 1398 as Catbeston and Cattbeston The Cat element is also found in a local field name Cadtheweit whose second element comes from Old Norse thveit meaning clearing attested in 1202 The Cat element could come from the Old English word catt cat wild cat or from a personal name Cada Recent scholarship prefers the latter interpretation in which case Cat Beeston once meant Cada s estate characterised by bent gress while Cadtheweit meant Cada s clearing 3 24 To the west of Beeston lies Beeston Royds whose name is first attested as Beyston Royds in 1633 The royds element comes from the Old English word rod clearing 3 25 Another district of Beeston is the Cross Flatts area This name is first attested in 1636 as Crossflatts and other spellings The Middle English word flat meant piece of level ground field but the precise significance of cross is unclear It is thought to refer to some cross shaped pattern of field divisions 3 40 41 History editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Beeston Leeds news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message The origin of the settlement is likely to be Anglo Saxon 4 Beeston is first mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book when it had recently been granted to Ilbert de Lacy 1045 93 in 1066 it had been worth 40 shillings 2 but in 1086 it was considered waste presumably because of the Harrying of the North 5 It was one of the ten out townships of the Parish of Leeds until the parish was broken up in the 1840s 50s In the medieval period Beeston was associated with sheep farming the monks of Kirkstall Abbey grazed 240 sheep there Founding Drax Priory in the 1130s William Paynel granted it land in Beeston A small hospital seems to have been founded in the township around 1233 and a chapel dedicated to St Mary the Virgin may also have been founded in the 13th century 5 The oldest buildings in Beeston today date to the 15th century Cad Beeston also Cad Beeston Cat Beeston Cat Beeston manor house has been dated by dendrochronology to about 1420 and is a grade II listed building recently used as private offices it is now a private dwelling with no public access 6 Parts of Stank Hall Barn a grade II listed scheduled ancient monument originally built for the storage of crops have been dated to between 1448 and 1490 7 8 By the early 17th century the area had a reputation for manufacturing bone lace and by the middle of the century coal mining was underway in the area 5 According to David Thornton in December 1688 rumours abounded in the town of Leeds that an army of Roman Catholics were ravaging the surrounding area Ralph Thoresby recorded Beeston is actually burnt and only some escaped to bring the doleful tidings The drums beat the bells rang backward the women shrieked and some doleful consternation seized upon all persons B lessed be God The terror disappeared it being a false alarm taken from some drunken people 5 Between 1740 and 1820 the Leeds Elland and Dewsbury Leeds turnpike roads were built through Beeston nationalised in the 1870s these roads remain as Elland Road and Dewsbury Road respectively By 1822 Beeston had a population of 1 670 9 Until the 19th century Beeston had been a small mining village situated on a hill overlooking Leeds However during the Industrial Revolution land that had been occupied by open pits as well as land formerly utilised for farming was snapped up for high density residential development 10 By 1872 Beeston is recorded as having a population of 2 547 with 537 houses a railway station and a post office 11 and by the end of the 19th century Beeston was predominantly a working class community living in back to backs 5 Beeston was a township and civil parish 1866 1904 then was absorbed into Holbeck civil parish before this was absorbed into Leeds in 1925 On the night of 14 March and early hours of 15 March 1941 during the Second World War Leeds received its worst night of German aerial bombing Beeston had more bombs dropped on it than any other district of the city and although Flaxton Terrace was damaged during the night time air raid escaped with the less damage than most other areas of Leeds with nearly all the other bombs landing on Cross Flatts Park In his 2005 poem Shrapnel Tony Harrison who was in Beeston on the night of the raid speculates whether this was an act of heroism by the German pilot a theory that has been explored ever since the raid 12 Holbeck Cemetery in Beeston also features prominently in Harrison s 1985 poem V citation needed Beeston was formerly home to card and board game manufacturer Waddingtons though the factory was vacated in the 1990s and is now home to Nampak Cartons citation needed In 2006 the district was the setting for much of the film Mischief Night citation needed Geography and demographics editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Beeston Leeds news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message nbsp Looking towards Leeds city centre from Beeston HillBeeston is an inner city area located close to Leeds city centre It is severed from the areas to the north by the M621 motorway separated from Middleton by Middleton Park and from Cottingley by the Leeds Outer Ring Road Beeston can be described as three distinct areas Beeston Parkside and Cross Flatts area and Beeston Hill are separated by Cross Flatts Park which runs between Dewsbury Road and Town Street Beeston Hill to the east and Parkside and Cross Flatts to the west The distinction between these two areas has probably existed since medieval times when they were two separate manors 4 Beeston Elland Road and Millshaw is primarily industrial and centred on Elland Road to the west of the area Beeston Parkside and Cross Flatts area edit The Parkside and Cross Flatts area of Beeston sometimes locally known as Beeston Village is centred on a shopping centre comprising a Nisa food store and a number of smaller shops Housing in this part of Beeston is made up of almost equal proportions of late Victorian and early 20th century terraced housing to the east of Old Lane and newer semi detached family and housing association properties to the west 13 To the south side of Dewsbury Road there are significant areas of industrial premises Indicators for health economic activity and community safety in this area are broadly consistent with averages for the City of Leeds as a whole 13 Beeston Hill area edit nbsp Tempest Road Beeston HillBeeston Hill is largely made up of areas of older Victoria terraces and newer social housing which comprises around a third of the housing stock in the area 14 In April 2008 a 93 million PFI scheme to build 700 private and housing association dwellings and regenerate some existing stock was announced 15 As a particularly deprived area Beeston Hill along with Holbeck was the beneficiary of Objective 2 European funding Beeston Hill has a relatively high level of empty housing as well as a number of significant unoccupied commercial premises Beeston Hill has a significant ethnic minority population with around 40 of the population from BME Communities 14 The area suffers from a high level of deprivation with indicators for health economic activity and community safety substantially worse than for the City of Leeds as a whole 14 nbsp The Junction pub and Crescent Grange in Beeston HillBeeston Elland Road and Millshaw Area edit The west of Beeston around Elland Road has significant amounts of industrial estates with a substantial amount of mainly semi detached and terraced housing to the western edge of the Parkside and Cross Flatts area This also forms much of the Old Village side of Beeston as can be seen in many of the houses along Town Street Milshaw Transport editRailway edit nbsp The former railway station at Beeston in 1961Beeston has a main line railway line running along its western edge along which all services between Leeds and London King s Cross and London St Pancras run however there are no stations along it as Beeston station closed to passengers in 1953 The nearest railway station is Cottingley which is just under a mile away from the Town Street end of Beeston Services between Leeds and Huddersfield are operated by TransPennine Express stopping at Morley Batley Dewsbury Ravensthorpe Mirfield and Deighton 16 Buses edit Beeston is served by a number of bus services along Dewsbury Road Elland Road and Town Street operated primarily by First Leeds and Arriva Yorkshire these include 17 A Park and Ride site to Leeds has been built opposite Elland Road police station First services 2 12 75 and 86 link much of Beeston with Middleton Belle Isle and Hunslet Service 65 links much of Beeston with Morley and Gildersome Services 51 and 52 link areas close to Elland Road with Morley Services 200 and 201 link the Dewsbury Road White Rose side of Beeston to Morley The frequent No 1 bus service largely follows the route of the former Leeds Tramway route 5 through Beeston it continues beyond Leeds to Lawnswood West Park Roads edit Beeston Hill and Beeston are severed from Leeds by the M621 and therefore benefit from very good links with the M621 motorway as well as the M62 which runs close to Beeston to the south of Morley Several taxi companies serve Beeston including Beeston Line Central Cars Amber who acquired South Leeds and Gee Gee Cars and South East Cars 18 Economy editThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Beeston Leeds news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message nbsp The Spinning Wheel pubMuch of Beeston s traditional heavy industry and fabrication works have closed throughout the last forty years However there are substantial areas of industrial and commercial development around Elland Road and to the south of Dewsbury Road and Beeston is surrounded by areas which have become popular with businesses such as Leeds city centre Tingley and many of the business districts along the south side of the River Aire The neighbouring White Rose Shopping Centre employs thousands of full and part time staff nbsp The Co op on Old LaneEducation editBeeston is home to the Beeston Centre of the Leeds City College formerly Joseph Priestley College and Elliott Hudson College Beeston has one secondary school Cockburn School which is a specialist arts college 19 Matthew Murray High School situated between Beeston and Holbeck closed down in 2004 and was merged with Merlyn Rees High School in Belle Isle to form South Leeds High School in Belle Isle In September 2009 South Leeds High School was reopened as the South Leeds Academy 20 In September 2017 South Leeds Academy was renamed and rebranded as Cockburn John Charles Academy as the Cockburn MAT opened a new school There are seven primary schools in the area citation needed Local facilities and attractions editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Beeston Leeds news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Beeston has a range of facilities It has two large health centres Elland Road stadium and the John Charles Centre for Sport Leeds city centre is a short distance away and the M1 and M62 motorways are easily accessed Cross Flatts Park has many facilities which include 5 a side football pitches tennis courts two separate play areas one for older children and one for younger children and a bowling green Stadiums edit Main article Elland Road nbsp Elland Road StadiumBeeston is home to two stadiums Elland Road home of Leeds United AFC has a 39 640 capacity all seater stadium 21 on Elland Road adjacent to the M621 in the north of Beeston The South Leeds Stadium part of the John Charles Centre for Sport is situated on Middleton Grove off Dewsbury Road on the southern edge of Beeston This is home to Hunslet rugby league club as well as hosting athletics and aquatic sports in the new Aquatic Centre the replacement for the Leeds International Swimming Pool this opened in October 2008 and provides an Olympic standard swimming pool and diving pool The centre also has indoor bowling indoor Tennis Centre athletics stadium 5 a side football pitches rugby pitches and outdoor gym equipment nbsp South Leeds Stadium at the John Charles Centre for SportCross Flatts Park edit Cross Flatts Park covers an area of 44 acres 17 8 hectares 22 in the centre of Beeston While the park formerly suffered from neglect and had a high crime rate through the work of the Council and community groups such as Friends of Cross Flatts Park and Beeston in Bloom the park has been cleaned up and made safer and more welcoming 23 The park has a large multi use games area which includes five a side football pitches basketball courts and tennis courts while the park boasts an artificial cricket pitch a children s play area and outdoor gym equipment The park is the venue for the Beeston Festival which takes place annually in June and in summer and school holidays is host to numerous activities for young people The park hosts a weekly 5 km Parkrun every Saturday morning at 9am over 1 000 runners have taken part in the event since it began on 30 March 2013 Holbeck Cemetery edit nbsp Guinea GravesHolbeck Cemetery in Beeston opened in 1857 and closed to general burials in the 1940s During the period it was operational thousands of people were buried there with many in guinea graves with several unrelated people buried in the same plot The graves were so called for the shared headstones on which a single line inscription cost one guinea 21 shillings Henry Rowland Marsden the Victorian industrialist and former mayor of Leeds is buried in Holbeck Cemetery where his family grave is marked by a Grade II listed memorial 24 The poem V by Tony Harrison published in 1985 describes a visit to Holbeck Cemetery and his reaction to finding his parents tombstones vandalised Greenhouse edit Main article Greenhouse Leeds nbsp A plaque commemorating the opening of Shaftesbury House Leeds 15 December 1938 In 2008 Shaftesbury House a working men s hostel designed for the council by George C Robb in 1936 was converted by Citu to the Greenhouse an eco friendly housing project The building had been empty for a number of years and had previously been earmarked for demolition The development which includes 172 homes office space and other facilities is one of the UK s first low carbon housing developments and incorporates wind turbines solar panels and ground source heating as well as energy efficient materials and rainwater and greywater recycling The development has won a large number of awards including in 2011 the Regeneration and Renewal Magazine Regeneration Award for Sustainability with judges praising the holistic way it addressed sustainability and provides real regeneration benefits to a deprived area 25 Robb Street and Avenue are likely named after its architect George C Robb who was chief housing architect for RAH Livett Leeds Housing Director and later City Architect Religious sites edit nbsp Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha Leeds UK Gurdwara on Ladypit Lane formerly Ringtons tea packing factory Beeston has at least ten churches of several denominations including Church of England Roman Catholic Methodist and Baptist The Anglican churches of St Mary on Town Street and St Luke on Malvern Road were constructed in the 1870s though the former is on the site of a much older church The more modern church of St David Waincliffe on Dewsbury Road constructed in the 1960s was designed by Geoffrey Davy 26 and won a Hoffman Wood Leeds Gold Medal for Architecture 27 There are three mosques in Beeston all located within the Beeston Hill area There is also a Sikh Gurdwara Governance editSee also Beeston and Holbeck ward and Hunslet and Riverside ward Most parts of Beeston are located within the Beeston and Holbeck ward of Leeds City Council which has since its creation in 2004 consistently been represented by Labour councillors Parts of Beeston Hill to the north of Cross Flatts Park are located within the Hunslet and Riverside ward This was created in 2018 and largely corresponds to its predecessor City and Hunslet created in 2004 This was too has invariably returned Labour councillors since 2004 Hilary Benn Labour has been MP since 1999 when he won the seat following the death of Derek Fatchett who had been MP for Leeds Central since 1983 Before the 1997 general election Beeston was part of the Morley and Leeds South constituency represented from its creation in 1983 to 1992 by Merlyn Rees and from 1992 to 1997 by John Gunnell Before the creation of the Morley and South Leeds constituency the area was part of the Leeds South constituency represented until 1963 by Hugh Gaitskell leader of the Labour Party from 1955 to his death in 1963 after whom a primary school in the area is named 28 29 Notable people editThe playwright Willis Hall attended Cockburn High School in Beeston 30 as did the academic and author of The Uses of Literacy Richard Hoggart 31 The poet Tony Harrison was brought up on Tempest Road and went to what was then Cross Flatts county primary school 32 More recently the actress Holly Kenny who starred in the BBC drama serial Waterloo Road was a pupil at the school The musician and bandleader Ivy Benson grew up in Beeston where her former house on Cemetery Road is marked with a blue plaque 33 Former England and Leeds United footballer Paul Madeley was born in Beeston 34 Former international rugby league and rugby union star Jason Robinson went to Cross Flatts Park Middle School and Matthew Murray High School and began his Rugby League career with Hunslet Hawks 35 Leigh Francis famous for his character Keith Lemon was born in Beeston 36 London bombings editMain article 7 July 2005 London bombings Beeston was the focus of press attention following 7 July 2005 London bombings when it was revealed that two of the four bombers had lived in the area On 12 July two properties in Beeston were raided by police in connection with the attacks 37 According to West Yorkshire Police a significant amount of explosive material was found in the raids and a controlled explosion was carried out at one of the properties After effects edit The link between 7 July bombings and Beeston became known several days after the event took place When news began to emerge of the Beeston link to the attacks community and religious groups from across Beeston came together to condemn the atrocities 38 There was a significant pulling together of people across the community with two Beeston Together for Peace marches being held Each were joined by hundreds of people some as the procession passed The second procession ended at Millennium Square in Leeds city centre uniting with people from other parts of Leeds for an interfaith vigil 39 Beeston in the press edit Following the London press Beeston was thrust into the local regional national and international press with journalists from as far away as North America and Japan arriving in the area to cover the reaction to the events of the previous week 40 The tone of the reporting was mixed some sympathetic to the area many even describing Beeston as a leafy suburb whereas others painted a less salubrious picture of Beeston The GuardianWriting a year after the bombings a journalist from The Guardian visited Beeston with the aim of going beyond the stereotypical pictures of veiled women and bearded men strolling past dilapidated buildings The article reported that the community in Beeston had on the whole condemned the attacks 41 NBCAmerican news network NBC described Beeston as a drab and derelict neighbourhood in Leeds three hours north of London where three of the four London suicide bombers were born and raised The article later stated Beeston a poor racially mixed community is lined with small row houses built in another era to house the factory workers who were one of the cornerstones of the British industry The neighbourhood has long accommodated immigrant communities from Asia in the 1960s to Eastern Europe and Africa today Reportedly almost half the households now are on some sort of state assistance 42 Los Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times described Beeston as an ethnically mixed downtrodden suburb Setting the scene it also said Peeping from lacy curtains in red brick rowhouses tattooed white men turbaned Sikhs and olive skinned women in gauzy headscarves shared what they knew 43 International Herald TribuneOne year after the London Bombings the International Herald Tribune described Beeston as a grim northern neighbourhood The paper also said It is a poor and racially mixed neighbourhood of back to back row houses with a population of just a few thousand where successive waves of immigrants from Asia in the 1960s and now from East Europe and Africa have spread a tangled overlay on a cityscape forged in Victorian Britain The bright pink and turquoise saris of Asian women offer chromatic relief from drab brick homes 44 Socialist WorkerThe Socialist Worker focused on Beeston s positive aspect and reported on the Beeston United for Peace vigil organised by Beeston members of the Stop the War Coalition The 150 strong march from Hyde Park was also covered 45 Location grid editSee also editListed buildings in Leeds Beeston and Holbeck Ward References edit UK Census 2011 Local Area Report Beeston and Holbeck Ward as of 2011 E05001415 Nomis Office for National Statistics Retrieved 7 April 2020 A H Smith The Place Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire English Place Names Society 30 37 8 vols Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1961 63 III 217 cf The Vocabulary of English Place Names A BOX ed by David Parsons and Tania Styles with Carole Hough Nottingham Centre for Name Studies 1997 s v beos a b c Harry Parkin Your City s Place Names Leeds English Place Name Society City Names Series 3 Nottingham English Place Names Society 2017 a b Beeston History Yorkshire Evening Post Retrieved 24 August 2011 a b c d e David Thornton Leeds A Historical Dictionary of People 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