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Newlay

November 04, 2023

Newlay is a suburb of Horsforth, in West Yorkshire, England. Originally a hamlet, it is now part of Horsforth parish in the City of Leeds District, and has its own conservation area. Newlay is situated on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the River Aire, some 5 miles (8 km) north west of Leeds city centre.

Newlay
The weir on the River Aire at Newlay, with Newlay Bridge in the background
Newlay
Location within West Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE239367
Civil parish
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLEEDS
Postcode districtLS13
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England
Yorkshire
53°49′48″N 1°38′13″W / 53.830°N 1.637°W / 53.830; -1.637

History edit

Newlay (or sometimes Newlay Bridge) was a hamlet historically in the wapentake of Skyrack,[1] and was listed as Newlath, New Laith, or New Laithes, which was the name of the grange in the area.[2][3][4] The site is possibly the location of the original Horse Ford across the River Aire, which gave the town of Horsforth its name.[5][6] The site has also been recorded as Newlaithbrigge in 1587, indicating the existence of a bridge in the 16th century.[7]

The modern suburb of Newlay is considered part of Horsforth, (adjacent to Newlay to the north), and is 5 miles (8 km) north west of the city centre in Leeds.[8][9][10] Newlay is part of the parish and ward of Horsforth,[11] although anything on the south side of the River Aire is in the Bramley and Stanningley Ward.[12][13][14] Mapping shows Newlay as straddling the river, which forms a natural boundary between wards and parishes.[15][16][17][18] In 1981, most of the suburb north of the river was designated as a conservation area.[19]

The Leeds Liverpool Canal is routed through the south end of Newlay. The canal opened in 1777 and the locks on the canal at Newlay are grade II listed.[20] The Leeds and Liverpool Canal SSSI is part of the southern area of Newlay.[21][22]

The River Aire flows through the southern part of the suburb, alongside the Leeds Liverpool Canal, and the railway lines between Leeds, Ilkley, Bradford and Skipton. In February 2021, Storm Christoph severely damaged the 17th century grade II listed weir on the River Aire.[23] The failure of the weir was attributed to the construction of a fish pass at the Western end of the weir. Vibrations caused by the excavating equipment are thought to have weakened the weir structure.[24] The weir was constructed in 1690 to channel water into a goit for the Kirkstall Forge works.[25] It is thought that an original goit at this location was built by monks at nearby Kirkstall Abbey to funnel water needed for their corn mill.[26] A large factory was built between the river, railway and canal, which suffered from accidents and fires.[27] A fire in 1885, when the plant was operating as a dye works and tar distillery, required the Leeds Fire Brigade to attend and extinguish it.[28] Although it was grade II listed, a fire in 2003 ruined the building, and it was demolished soon afterwards, with a housing estate being built on the site.[29]

The railway through Newlay was opened to traffic on 30 June 1846, however, the station at Newlay, did not open until 7 September 1847.[30][31] The initial push of the railway was for connectivity between Leeds and Bradford, with intermediate stations being built after opening of the line.[32] The railway provided access for those who wanted to work in Leeds but live in a more rural location close to the city. This accelerated house building near to the station, but this lessened somewhat in the 1890s when trams were available on the main road into Leeds, which attracted some of the customers away from the railway.[31]

A church (st Margaret's) was built in 1891 on the south side of Pollard Bridge. It burnt down in 1908, and a replacement was built soon afterwards, but this was closed in 1956, and services were moved to another church in Bramley.[33] In 1916, a munitions factory was opened in Newlay, and like the others opened in and around Leeds at that time, it was staffed by female workers.[34][35]

Pollard Bridge edit

Crossings were known at Newlay since at least Anglo-Saxon times, but the first recorded instance of a bridge was in the late 12th century.[6] In 1615, Sir John Howley appealed to the residents of Leathley to contribute to the "..building of a bridge over the water of Aire at Newlath.."[2]

Pollard Bridge (also known as Newlay Bridge), spans the River Aire at Newlay and was built at the behest of John Pollard. The bridge has four 75 feet (23 m) cast iron arch ribs aligned together in a row.[36] Cast and erected in 1819, the bridge was made by Aydon & Ewell in Bradford, a firm which later became part of the Low Moor Ironworks.[37] The bridge replaced an earlier structure dating from 1783,[6] (and a previous one was said to have been built in 1616) which connected Pollard's factories on the south of the river with the Leeds to Horsforth turnpike.[38] The bridge cost £1,500 (equivalent to £121,069 in 2021), and a toll was charged at a rate of half-a-penny, which recouped £600 (equivalent to £48,427 in 2021) per year (1890).[39] The bridge was still open to vehicular traffic in the early 1980s, but was pedestrianised in 1984.[40] Pollard Bridge is grade II* listed.[41]

References edit

  1. ^ Names of all the towns and villages in the county of York, and county of the city of York. York. 1768. p. 60. OCLC 518502462.
  2. ^ a b Harrison, David (2007). The bridges of medieval England : transport and society, 400-1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0191556791.
  3. ^ "New Laithes :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Genuki: In 1822, the following places were in the Parish of Guiseley:, Yorkshire (West Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  5. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 252. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  6. ^ a b c NCA 2008, p. 5.
  7. ^ Smith, A. H. (1961). The place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 214. OCLC 3812789.
  8. ^ "Conservation proposal for Leeds suburb". BBC News. 26 June 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Newlay West Riding". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  10. ^ McIntyre, Anne (9 September 2020). "Horsforth films on YouTube". Ilkley Gazette. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Rivers 'still rising' as misery goes on". infoweb.newsbank.com. 7 November 2000. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  12. ^ NCA 2008, p. 4.
  13. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Bramley and Stanningley Ward (as of 2011) (E05001416)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  14. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Horsforth Parish (E04000217)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  15. ^ "Horsforth, Newlay, Newlaithes". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Newlay, Leeds". OS GetOutside. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  17. ^ "NAWRA | Newlay and Whitecote Residents Association". nawra.co.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  18. ^ A to Z Leeds & Bradford : including Halifax, Denholme, Bingley, Shipley, Baildon, Guiseley, Horsforth, Pudsey, Rothwell, Morley and Cleckheaton (5 ed.). Sevenoaks: Geographers' Map Co. 1993. p. 41. ISBN 0-85039-125-3.
  19. ^ NCA 2008, p. 3.
  20. ^ Historic England. "Newlay Locks (Grade II) (1375088)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  21. ^ "Leeds Liverpool Canal SSSI". magic.defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  22. ^ "Leeds-Liverpool Canal" (PDF). designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  23. ^ Jagger, David (18 February 2021). "Work starts after 17th Century Newlay weir on River Aire destroyed". Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  24. ^ Kennedy, Catherine (30 July 2021). "Question marks over cause of 300-year-old dam collapse". New Civil Engineer. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  25. ^ Historic England. "Weir and retaining walls on the River Aire (Grade II) (1375482)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  26. ^ Parson, Edward (1834). The civil, ecclesiastical, literary, commercial, and miscellaneous history of Leeds. Leeds: F.  Hobson. p. 408. OCLC 21833179.
  27. ^ Dietz, Sarah (2016). British entrepreneurship in Poland : a case study of Bradford Mills at Marki near Warsaw, 1883-1939. London: Routledge. p. 133. ISBN 978-1317172031.
  28. ^ McIntyre, Anne (18 February 2010). "Horsforth greengrocer fined for doctored sweets". infoweb.newsbank.com. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  29. ^ Harting, Robert (2 March 2014). "Industry". newlayconservationsociety.wordpress.com. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  30. ^ Bairstow, Martin (2004). Railways through Airedale & Wharfedale. Farsley: Martin Bairstow. p. 33. ISBN 1-871944-28-7.
  31. ^ a b NCA 2008, p. 6.
  32. ^ Young, Alan (2015). Lost stations of Yorkshire. Kettering: Silver Link. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-85794-438-9.
  33. ^ "St Margaret's Church". newlayconservationsociety.wordpress.com. 2 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  34. ^ Hey, David (2005). A history of Yorkshire : "county of the broad acres". Lancaster: Carnegie Pub. p. 431. ISBN 1859361226.
  35. ^ Hartley, Owen A. (1980). "XVI: The years of political transition". In Fraser, Derek (ed.). A History of modern Leeds. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 411. ISBN 0-7190-0747-X.
  36. ^ Yee, Ronald (2021). The architecture of British bridges. Marlborough: Crowood. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-78500-794-1.
  37. ^ Rennison, R. W. (1996). Civil engineering heritage; Northern England (2 ed.). London: Thomas Telford. p. 181. ISBN 07277-2518-1.
  38. ^ "Newlay Bridge". www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  39. ^ Speight, Harry (1891). Through Airedale from Goole to Malham. Leeds: Walker & Laycock. p. 96. OCLC 5824116.
  40. ^ Pickles, Helen (24 March 1984). "Out and About". The Times. No. 61790. p. 20. ISSN 0140-0460.
  41. ^ Historic England. "Newlay Bridge Pollard Lane (Grade II*) (1375481)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 February 2022.

Sources edit

  • Newlay Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (PDF). leeds.gov.uk (Report). Leeds City Council. 10 November 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2022.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Newlay.
  • Newlay Conservation Society
  • Mapping of Newlay from the 1950s

November 04, 2023
newlay, suburb, horsforth, west, yorkshire, england, originally, hamlet, part, horsforth, parish, city, leeds, district, conservation, area, situated, leeds, liverpool, canal, river, aire, some, miles, north, west, leeds, city, centre, weir, river, aire, with,. Newlay is a suburb of Horsforth in West Yorkshire England Originally a hamlet it is now part of Horsforth parish in the City of Leeds District and has its own conservation area Newlay is situated on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the River Aire some 5 miles 8 km north west of Leeds city centre NewlayThe weir on the River Aire at Newlay with Newlay Bridge in the backgroundNewlayLocation within West YorkshireOS grid referenceSE239367Civil parishHorsforth parishShire countyWest YorkshireRegionYorkshire and the HumberCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townLEEDSPostcode districtLS13PoliceWest YorkshireFireWest YorkshireAmbulanceYorkshireList of places UK England Yorkshire 53 49 48 N 1 38 13 W 53 830 N 1 637 W 53 830 1 637 Contents 1 History 2 Pollard Bridge 3 References 3 1 Sources 4 External linksHistory editNewlay or sometimes Newlay Bridge was a hamlet historically in the wapentake of Skyrack 1 and was listed as Newlath New Laith or New Laithes which was the name of the grange in the area 2 3 4 The site is possibly the location of the original Horse Ford across the River Aire which gave the town of Horsforth its name 5 6 The site has also been recorded as Newlaithbrigge in 1587 indicating the existence of a bridge in the 16th century 7 The modern suburb of Newlay is considered part of Horsforth adjacent to Newlay to the north and is 5 miles 8 km north west of the city centre in Leeds 8 9 10 Newlay is part of the parish and ward of Horsforth 11 although anything on the south side of the River Aire is in the Bramley and Stanningley Ward 12 13 14 Mapping shows Newlay as straddling the river which forms a natural boundary between wards and parishes 15 16 17 18 In 1981 most of the suburb north of the river was designated as a conservation area 19 The Leeds Liverpool Canal is routed through the south end of Newlay The canal opened in 1777 and the locks on the canal at Newlay are grade II listed 20 The Leeds and Liverpool Canal SSSI is part of the southern area of Newlay 21 22 The River Aire flows through the southern part of the suburb alongside the Leeds Liverpool Canal and the railway lines between Leeds Ilkley Bradford and Skipton In February 2021 Storm Christoph severely damaged the 17th century grade II listed weir on the River Aire 23 The failure of the weir was attributed to the construction of a fish pass at the Western end of the weir Vibrations caused by the excavating equipment are thought to have weakened the weir structure 24 The weir was constructed in 1690 to channel water into a goit for the Kirkstall Forge works 25 It is thought that an original goit at this location was built by monks at nearby Kirkstall Abbey to funnel water needed for their corn mill 26 A large factory was built between the river railway and canal which suffered from accidents and fires 27 A fire in 1885 when the plant was operating as a dye works and tar distillery required the Leeds Fire Brigade to attend and extinguish it 28 Although it was grade II listed a fire in 2003 ruined the building and it was demolished soon afterwards with a housing estate being built on the site 29 The railway through Newlay was opened to traffic on 30 June 1846 however the station at Newlay did not open until 7 September 1847 30 31 The initial push of the railway was for connectivity between Leeds and Bradford with intermediate stations being built after opening of the line 32 The railway provided access for those who wanted to work in Leeds but live in a more rural location close to the city This accelerated house building near to the station but this lessened somewhat in the 1890s when trams were available on the main road into Leeds which attracted some of the customers away from the railway 31 A church st Margaret s was built in 1891 on the south side of Pollard Bridge It burnt down in 1908 and a replacement was built soon afterwards but this was closed in 1956 and services were moved to another church in Bramley 33 In 1916 a munitions factory was opened in Newlay and like the others opened in and around Leeds at that time it was staffed by female workers 34 35 Pollard Bridge editCrossings were known at Newlay since at least Anglo Saxon times but the first recorded instance of a bridge was in the late 12th century 6 In 1615 Sir John Howley appealed to the residents of Leathley to contribute to the building of a bridge over the water of Aire at Newlath 2 Pollard Bridge also known as Newlay Bridge spans the River Aire at Newlay and was built at the behest of John Pollard The bridge has four 75 feet 23 m cast iron arch ribs aligned together in a row 36 Cast and erected in 1819 the bridge was made by Aydon amp Ewell in Bradford a firm which later became part of the Low Moor Ironworks 37 The bridge replaced an earlier structure dating from 1783 6 and a previous one was said to have been built in 1616 which connected Pollard s factories on the south of the river with the Leeds to Horsforth turnpike 38 The bridge cost 1 500 equivalent to 121 069 in 2021 and a toll was charged at a rate of half a penny which recouped 600 equivalent to 48 427 in 2021 per year 1890 39 The bridge was still open to vehicular traffic in the early 1980s but was pedestrianised in 1984 40 Pollard Bridge is grade II listed 41 References edit Names of all the towns and villages in the county of York and county of the city of York York 1768 p 60 OCLC 518502462 a b Harrison David 2007 The bridges of medieval England transport and society 400 1800 Oxford Oxford University Press p 215 ISBN 978 0191556791 New Laithes Survey of English Place Names epns nottingham ac uk Retrieved 25 February 2022 Genuki In 1822 the following places were in the Parish of Guiseley Yorkshire West Riding www genuki org uk Retrieved 25 February 2022 Ekwall Eilert 1960 The concise Oxford dictionary of English place names 4 ed Oxford Oxford University Press p 252 ISBN 0 19 869103 3 a b c NCA 2008 p 5 Smith A H 1961 The place names of the West Riding of Yorkshire Cambridge Cambridge University Press p 214 OCLC 3812789 Conservation proposal for Leeds suburb BBC News 26 June 2010 Retrieved 25 February 2022 Newlay West Riding visionofbritain org uk Retrieved 8 March 2022 McIntyre Anne 9 September 2020 Horsforth films on YouTube Ilkley Gazette Retrieved 8 March 2022 Rivers still rising as misery goes on infoweb newsbank com 7 November 2000 Retrieved 7 March 2022 NCA 2008 p 4 UK Census 2011 Local Area Report Bramley and Stanningley Ward as of 2011 E05001416 Nomis Office for National Statistics Retrieved 8 March 2022 UK Census 2011 Local Area Report Horsforth Parish E04000217 Nomis Office for National Statistics Retrieved 8 March 2022 Horsforth Newlay Newlaithes maps nls uk Retrieved 25 February 2022 Newlay Leeds OS GetOutside Retrieved 25 February 2022 NAWRA Newlay and Whitecote Residents Association nawra co uk Retrieved 8 March 2022 A to Z Leeds amp Bradford including Halifax Denholme Bingley Shipley Baildon Guiseley Horsforth Pudsey Rothwell Morley and Cleckheaton 5 ed Sevenoaks Geographers Map Co 1993 p 41 ISBN 0 85039 125 3 NCA 2008 p 3 Historic England Newlay Locks Grade II 1375088 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 25 February 2022 Leeds Liverpool Canal SSSI magic defra gov uk Retrieved 24 February 2022 Leeds Liverpool Canal PDF designatedsites naturalengland org uk Retrieved 24 February 2022 Jagger David 18 February 2021 Work starts after 17th Century Newlay weir on River Aire destroyed Telegraph and Argus Retrieved 25 February 2022 Kennedy Catherine 30 July 2021 Question marks over cause of 300 year old dam collapse New Civil Engineer Retrieved 25 February 2022 Historic England Weir and retaining walls on the River Aire Grade II 1375482 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 25 February 2022 Parson Edward 1834 The civil ecclesiastical literary commercial and miscellaneous history of Leeds Leeds F Hobson p 408 OCLC 21833179 Dietz Sarah 2016 British entrepreneurship in Poland a case study of Bradford Mills at Marki near Warsaw 1883 1939 London Routledge p 133 ISBN 978 1317172031 McIntyre Anne 18 February 2010 Horsforth greengrocer fined for doctored sweets infoweb newsbank com Retrieved 7 March 2022 Harting Robert 2 March 2014 Industry newlayconservationsociety wordpress com Retrieved 7 March 2022 Bairstow Martin 2004 Railways through Airedale amp Wharfedale Farsley Martin Bairstow p 33 ISBN 1 871944 28 7 a b NCA 2008 p 6 Young Alan 2015 Lost stations of Yorkshire Kettering Silver Link p 14 ISBN 978 1 85794 438 9 St Margaret s Church newlayconservationsociety wordpress com 2 March 2014 Retrieved 10 March 2022 Hey David 2005 A history of Yorkshire county of the broad acres Lancaster Carnegie Pub p 431 ISBN 1859361226 Hartley Owen A 1980 XVI The years of political transition In Fraser Derek ed A History of modern Leeds Manchester Manchester University Press p 411 ISBN 0 7190 0747 X Yee Ronald 2021 The architecture of British bridges Marlborough Crowood p 94 ISBN 978 1 78500 794 1 Rennison R W 1996 Civil engineering heritage Northern England 2 ed London Thomas Telford p 181 ISBN 07277 2518 1 Newlay Bridge www heritagegateway org uk Retrieved 25 February 2022 Speight Harry 1891 Through Airedale from Goole to Malham Leeds Walker amp Laycock p 96 OCLC 5824116 Pickles Helen 24 March 1984 Out and About The Times No 61790 p 20 ISSN 0140 0460 Historic England Newlay Bridge Pollard Lane Grade II 1375481 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 25 February 2022 Sources edit Newlay Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan PDF leeds gov uk Report Leeds City Council 10 November 2008 Retrieved 24 February 2022 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Newlay Newlay Conservation Society Mapping of Newlay from the 1950s Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Newlay amp oldid 1170800146, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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