Editing Cookridge (section)

==History and buildings==
The area had the natural geographic boundaries of the Moseley Beck on the West and South, the Marsh Beck to the North, and the old trackway to the East, running roughly North-South along the line of Spen Lane.<ref name=Cole1>{{cite book |last=Cole |first=Don |date=1980 |title=Cookridge: The Story of a Yorkshire Township Part One |location=Leeds |publisher=D&J Thornton |isbn=0907339-00X }}</ref>  A [[Roman roads in Britain|Roman road]] passing East-West was excavated in 1966 going through [[Golden Acre Park]], south of Marsh Beck.  The area later became part of the Kingdom of [[Elmet]], being conquered by the [[Angles (tribe)|Angles]] in the 7th century, leading to the Old English name that survives to the present.  It was the [[Danelaw|Danes]] in the 9th century who named the nearby hill "Tyndr's Hill", now [[Tinshill]].<ref name=Cole1/>

In the [[Domesday Book]] it was listed as the manor of Cucheric, with farmland enough for two ploughs and woodland of 9 square furlongs (36 hectares).<ref name=Domesday>{{cite web |url=http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2540/cookridge/ |title=Place: Cookridge |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Open Domesday |accessdate=7 October 2017 }}</ref> In the 12th century, the lands were granted to the monks of [[Kirkstall Abbey]], and in the 13th century the manor became a "vill" or township, part of Cugerig and Adel. The monastery lands were confiscated by [[Henry VIII]] and sold off from 1540; this included Cookridge Grange, the site of the present Cookridge Hall.<ref name=Cole1/>