Scholes-in-Elmet
| Scholes-in-Elmet | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
 Main Street, Scholes | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE378373 |
| Location: | 53°49’34"N, 1°25’45"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,403 |
| Post town: | Leeds |
| Postcode: | LS15 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Leeds |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Elmet |
Scholes-in-Elmet or simply Scholes is a village in the West Riding of Yorkshire, sitting between Leeds and Barwick-in-Elmet. Scholes is anciently a part of the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, and shares a civil parish with it ('Barwick in Elmet and Scholes'). In 2001, the population of the village was recorded as 2,403.
The full name of the village incorporates that of the ancient Welsh kingdom of Elmet which survived in this part of the Pennines until the 7th century. The suffix serves to distinguish this Scholes from Scholes, Holme Valley, Scholes, Cleckheaton and Scholes near Oakworth, all in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Three villages in this area are named from the old kingdom: Scholes-in-Elmet, Barwick-in-Elmet and Sherburn-in-Elmet.
The name 'Scholes' is a plural of Old Norse skáli, meaning a "temporary structure", or shieling.
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History
In the 1800s, Colonel Frederick Trench-Gascoigne (of Parlington Hall, Aberford), owned and rented out a large number of houses, mines, woodlands and farming land in the areas of Scholes, Swarcliffe, Barnbow, Garforth, Barwick-in-Elmet, Cross Gates, and Whinmoor.[1][2]
In the mid-1880s, a previous occupant of the Seacroft windmill, Isaac Chippindale, started the Scholes Brick and Tile Works on Wood Lane, on the border to Swarcliffe. The company's quarry produced high quality bricks with which many houses in the surrounding area were built.[3] Its kilns and house were demolished in the early 1980s, leaving two small fishing lakes, but is still known as "Chippy's Quarry".[4]
Amenities
Scholes has several shops including a convenience store and off-licence, two pubs, a library and two churches. The nearest commercial centres are in Seacroft and Cross Gates. The Seacroft Green shopping centre contains amongst other shops a large supermarket, and the nearby Cross Gates Shopping Centre contains many high street shops; and otherwise the shops of Leeds lure the consumer.
The Barley Corn is a historic pub on Main Street, while the former railway station on Station Road has been converted into a pub and restaurant.
Scholes Junior School
Scholes Methodist Church
Houses on Main Street
Barley Corn Inn
Leeds Road
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Scholes-in-Elmet) |
- Information on Scholes-in-Elmet from GENUKI - The Ancient Parish of Barwick in Elmet
Notes
- ↑ Hull, Brian. "The Gascoigne Mines in Garforth". Parlington Hall Website. http://www.parlington.co.uk/mines.lasso?process=10&subProcess=mines2. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ↑ Colman, F. S. (1908). "A History of the Parish of Barwick-in-Elmet in the County of York". Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society. http://www.barwickinelmethistoricalsociety.com/rate1886.html#Top. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
- ↑ "Isaac Chippindale & Sons, brick and tile manufacturers". The National Archives. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B14303&tabType=HISTORY. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ↑ Marshall, Nigel. "The Chippindale Family". pro-patria-mori. http://www.pro-patria-mori.co.uk/barwickandscholes/id133.html. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
