Editing Cookridge (section)

{{Short description|Suburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2014}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country                  = England
| coordinates              = {{coord|53|51|30|N|1|37|0|W|display=title}}
| official_name            = Cookridge
| static_image_name        = TinshillView2.jpg
| static_image_width       = 300px
| static_image_caption     = High point on Otley Old Road, showing Tinshill Water Tower (left) Cookridge Fire Station (centre) and the [[Tinshill BT Tower]] (right)
| pushpin_map              = United Kingdom Leeds
| population               =
| population_ref           = 
| metropolitan_borough     = [[City of Leeds]]
| metropolitan_county      = [[West Yorkshire]]
| region                   = Yorkshire and the Humber
| constituency_westminster = [[Leeds North West (UK Parliament constituency)|Leeds North West]]
| post_town                = LEEDS
| postcode_area            = LS
| postcode_district        = LS16
| dial_code                = 0113
| os_grid_reference        =  
}}
[[File:Dale Parks from Moseley Woods.jpg|300px|thumb|The Dale Parks from Moseley Wood area]]
[[File:Wrenbury Crescent Cookridge.jpg|300px|thumb|Wrenbury Crescent looking towards the airport]]
[[File:Cookridge Hall 1919.jpg|thumb|Cookridge Hall in 1919, home of the family of  Mrs Muriel Winifred Middleton (''née'' Paul)]]
[[File:CookridgeHall01.jpg|300px|thumb|Cookridge Hall at rear with the former coach house in the forefront on the left, now the golf clubhouse]]
'''Cookridge''' is a suburb of north-west [[Leeds]], [[West Yorkshire]], England, north of the [[Leeds Outer Ring Road]]. In 1715 [[Ralph Thoresby]] described it as a village four miles from Leeds and three from Otley, dating from 1540.<ref name=Thoresby>Ralph Thoresby (1715) ''Ducatus Leodiensis: or, the topography of the ancient and populous town and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent in the West Riding of York'', pages 157 to 163</ref>

A mixture of suburban and council owned properties on the border with Holt Park and Tinshill, the area sits in both the [[Adel and Wharfedale (ward)|Adel & Wharfedale]] ward of [[Leeds City Council]] and the [[Leeds North West (UK Parliament constituency)|Leeds North West]] parliamentary constituency. Before 2004, the area sat within Cookridge ward, named after the area.

Nearby places include [[Adel, Leeds|Adel]], [[Holt Park]], [[Tinshill]], [[Horsforth]], [[Bramhope]], [[Moor Grange]] and [[Ireland Wood]].

Cookridge is one of the highest points in Leeds, with the elevation rising to {{cvt|198|m|ft}} above sea level close to the water tower on the eastern edge of the suburb.

Cookridge holds an annual scarecrow festival hosted by the Leeds Modernians.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://northleeds.mumbler.co.uk/event/cookridge-scarecrow-festival-2019/| title = Cookridge Scarecrow Festival 2019 – North Leeds Mumbler {{!}} Your Local Parenting Community}}</ref>