Osmondthorpe a district of east

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, England is considered part of the

Halton Moor Halton Moor is a district of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, about three miles east of Leeds city centre close to the A63. It is situated between Killingbeck to the north, Temple Newsam to the south, Osmondthorpe to the west and Halto ...

district.

It is situated in the LS9 Leeds postcode area, two miles (3 km) to the east of

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between

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and Halton Moor. The district is part of the Burmantofts and Richmond Hill Ward of the Leeds Metropolitan Council. It was originally a hamlet 3.5 miles SE of Leeds associated with the

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and in the

Whitkirk Whitkirk is a suburb of east Leeds, England. It is situated between Cross Gates to the north, Austhorpe to the east, Killingbeck to the west, Colton to the south-east and Halton to the south-west. The Temple Newsam estate lies directly sou ...

parish with some coal working.

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visited Osmondthorpe Hall, which stood on the West side of Osmondthorpe Lane, but was destroyed by fire in 1924. Some 50 acres of the grounds were used to create

and the rest for housing. On 31 December 1894 Osmondthorpe became a separate

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

, being formed from the part of the parish of Templenewsam in

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, on 1 April 1925 the parish was abolished and merged with Leeds. In 1921 the parish had a population of 773.

Osmondthorpe railway station Osmondthorpe was a railway station between and on the Leeds to York Line (part of the Cross Country Route). It was opened as ''Osmondthorpe Halt'' by the London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was ...

was opened by the

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on the

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in 1930 to serve a new estate of housing, but closed in 1960. Osmondthorpe is home to the Neville Hill railway depot.

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* * Places in Leeds Former civil parishes in West Yorkshire {{WestYorkshire-geo-stub