Bardsey, Yorkshire
| Bardsey | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
 The Bingley Arms in Bardsey | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE367432 |
| Location: | 53°53’2"N, 1°26’42"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Leeds |
| Postcode: | LS17 |
| Dialling code: | 01937 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Leeds |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
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Bardsey, in the West Riding of Yorkshire is a small village found eight miles north-east of Leeds city centre. It is assigned to the civil parish of ‘Bardsey cum Rigton’, while Bardsey itself stands just off the A58 road between Leeds and Wetherby.
The is a predominantly middle-class area with a high proportion of retired residents. Housing is mixed; while most is private, there is council housing situated near Keswick Lane. Facilities include a public house and sports club (with a cricket pitch and two football pitches). Bardsey also has a primary school and an ancient parish church.
Name
The name of Bardsey is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Berdesei and Bereleseie, situated in the hundred of Skyrack.[1] The second element of the name comes from the Old English word eg ('island') and the first is agreed to be from a personal name. Exactly what this name was is not certain, but the name Beornræd is a plausible candidate. Thus the name may once have meant 'Beornræd's island': not an island as such but a hill rising, island-like, from flat ground.[2]
Parish church
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- Main article: All Hallows Church, Bardsey
All Hallows Church in Bardsey claims to have the oldest Anglo-Saxon tower church in Britain: it dates back to around 850–950.[3]
History
Nearby earthworks named 'Pompocali', in the parish of Scarcroft, are of uncertain origin, but possibly a result of quarrying. A minor Roman road lies alongside it, suggesting that Pompocali results from Roman activity.[4]
A motte-and-bailey castle dates back to the time immediately following the Norman conquest.[5]
The Bingley Arms is a public house that claims to be the oldest public house in the land, and to be recorded in the Domesday Book, although these claims are disputed.[6]
Bardsey railway station on the Cross Gates–Wetherby line opened in 1876 and closed in 1964.[7]
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References
- ↑ Bardsey, Yorkshire in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), p. 20.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1135652: Church of All Hallows
- ↑ Hill, H.M.. "Archaeology of Pompocali Earthworks and Hetchell Crags". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928044404/http://www.pompocali.co.uk/.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1012774: Castle Hill motte and bailey castle (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
- ↑ Fox, Geoff (15 February 2005). "Beware mock heritage in our 'historic' pubs". Yorkshire Evening Post. http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Beware-mock-heritage-in-our.946441.jp. Retrieved 14 December 2007.
- ↑ Catford, Nick. "Bardsey". http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/bardsey/. Retrieved 19 October 2017.