Bardsey,

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, England is a small village in the

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metropolitan borough, north east of Leeds city centre. The village is in the LS17 Leeds postcode district. It is part of the

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of Bardsey cum Rigton. The village itself lies just off the A58 road between Leeds and Wetherby. It is a predominantly

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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

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and sports club (with a cricket pitch and two football pitches). Bardsey also has a primary school and an Anglican church.

Etymology

The name of Bardsey is first attested in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...

of 1086 as ''Berdesei'' and ''Bereleseie'', situated in the hundred of Skyrack. The second element comes from the

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...

word ''ēg'' ('island') and the first is agreed to be from a personal name. Exactly what this name was is not certain, but the name ''Beornrǣd'' is a plausible candidate. Thus the name probably once meant 'Beornrǣd's island' (or the island of someone of a similar name). Since the site is not in fact an island, it has been suggested that the name was metaphorical, referring to a hill rising, island-like, from flat ground.

History

Nearby earthworks named Pompocali, in the parish of

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, are of uncertain origin, but possibly a result of quarrying. A minor Roman road lies alongside it, suggesting that Pompocali results from Roman activity. A motte-and-bailey castle dates back to the time immediately following the Norman conquest. Bardsey also claims the oldest Anglo-Saxon tower church in England, with the tower of All Hallows church dating back to .

The Bingley Arms The Bingley Arms is a public house in Bardsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It claims to be both the oldest surviving business and oldest surviving pub in the United Kingdom. It is possibly the fourth oldest surviving business in Europe. ...

is a public house that claims to be England's oldest public house, and to be recorded in the ''Domesday Book'', although these claims are disputed. Bardsey Station 1758448 0d4cded3

Bardsey railway station on the Cross Gates–Wetherby line opened in 1876 and closed in 1964. Church Lane, Bardsey

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The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: All Hallows, Bardsey, West Yorkshire

Bardsey Village web-site

Bardsey Cricket Club website
* Villages in West Yorkshire Places in Leeds {{WestYorkshire-geo-stub

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