Editing Cookridge

{{Short description|Suburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2014}}
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| static_image_caption     = High point on Otley Old Road, showing Tinshill Water Tower (left) Cookridge Fire Station (centre) and the [[Tinshill BT Tower]] (right)
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[[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>

== Geography ==
Cookridge is located in the foothills of the eastern [[Pennines]].  Elevation ranges from {{cvt|120|m|ft}} above sea level close to Moseley Beck behind Horsforth railway station to {{cvt|198|m|ft}} above sea level by the water tower.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/maps/d63/Leeds/|title=Leeds topographic map, elevation, relief|website=topographic-map.com|access-date=2020-02-15}}</ref>  Because of its higher elevation it experiences a cooler, windier and wetter climate compared to many other parts of Leeds, and is very exposed to easterly winds. The [[Beast from the East]] in February/March 2018 brought heavy snowfall and severe drifting to the area.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

==Etymology==
The name of Cookridge is first attested in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, as ''Cucheric''. The second element of the name is agreed to come from an [[Old English]] word *''ric'' ('narrow strip of land'), attested only in place-names. The origin of the first element is less certain: it could perhaps be from an otherwise unattested [[personal name]], inferred to have been *''Cuca'', or from a variant of the attested word ''cwica'' ('quickset hedge, hedge grown from (hawthorn) cuttings'). Thus the name might once have meant 'Cuca's narrow strip of land' and 'narrow strip of land demarcated by a quickset hedge').<ref>Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017), p. 38.</ref>

==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/>

==Cookridge Hall and the Paul and Middleton families==
Early buildings on the Cookridge Hall estate were of wood, thatch, wattle etc., but in the 17th century substantial stone buildings, several which are still in existence, began to be constructed including Cookridge Hall itself. William Paul commenced  business in Kirkstall Road, Leeds, in 1876. It closed in 1968.<ref>{{cite web |title=A 1942 wartime advertisement for Veebex British Leather Shoes manufactured by William Paul Ltd of Leeds. |url=https://www.alamy.com/a-1942-wartime-advertisement-for-veebex-british-leather-shoes-manufactured-by-william-paul-ltd-of-leeds-william-paul-started-business-in-kirkstall-road-leeds-in-1876-it-closed-in-1968-image563272571.html |publisher=Alamy Ltd. |access-date=3 May 2025 |quote=A 1942 wartime advertisement for Veebex British Leather Shoes manufactured by William Paul Ltd of Leeds. William Paul started business in Kirkstall Road, Leeds, in 1876. It closed in 1968.}}</ref> In 1890, Paul took up residence at Cookridge Hall and the Paul family remained there until 1954 when the estate was sold by the executors of T. W. Paul. The [[London Gazette]] records that in 1899 James Arthur Paul – later of Bramhope Hall – was living with his father, William Paul at Cookridge Hall.<ref>{{cite web |title=Graces Guide - William Paul |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/William_Paul |publisher=Grace's Guide Ltd. |access-date=3 May 2025 |date=2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=London Gazette – August 1899|url=https://docslib.org/doc/618213/the-london-gazette-august-ll-1899 |publisher=London Gazette |access-date=14 August 2022 |quote=...William Paul and [son] James Arthur Paul of Cookridge Hall...}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=Adel Bells parish magazine |url=https://www.adelparishchurch.org.uk/images/March-21-multiple_compressed.pdf  |title=William Paul’s Family |date =March 2021 |page=18 }}</ref>

Muriel Winifred Middleton ''née'' Paul (1904–1979) was the daughter of [[Lieutenant Colonel|Lt. Col.]] James Arthur Paul and had married [[Middleton family#City of Leeds dignitaries|Major Arthur Daryl Middleton]] in 1933. Muriel's brother Peter Graham Paul had attended [[Rugby School|Rugby]] in the 1920s as had Thomas Neil Paul,  recorded as the "second son of the late T.W. Paul of Cookridge Hall".<ref>{{cite web |title=London Gazette – August 1899|url=https://docslib.org/doc/618213/the-london-gazette-august-ll-1899 |publisher=London Gazette |access-date=14 August 2022 |quote=...William Paul and [son] James Arthur Paul of Cookridge Hall...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Muriel Winifred Paul – later Middleton |url=http://wyndhammarsh.co.uk/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I3436&tree=CledwynMarsh |publisher=Wynmarsh |access-date=14 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Paul - Peter Graham |date=1957 |publisher=Rugby School Register: 1911-1946 |page=270 |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Rugby_School_Register_1911_1946/nSl9-s6yh54C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=James+Arthur+Paul+Bramhope+Hall&dq=James+Arthur+Paul+Bramhope+Hall&printsec=frontcover |access-date=3 May 2024 |quote=Paul - Peter Graham, second son of Lt. Col. James Arthur Paul of Bramhope Hall   born 1912... left Rugby in 1929..[also] Thomas  Neil Paul,  born 1909, second son of the late T.W. Paul of Cookridge Hall...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Winchester College Archives (Register) 1884–1934| year=1940 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOR1GQAACAAJ|access-date=18 January 2022 |quote=MIDDLETON, ARTHUR DARYL (D-191Q2), b. 5 Nov., 1892, y. s. of Arthur Middleton, solicitor, of Leeds, and Jessie Marie, d. of Henry Dubs, engineer, Glasgow. R.M.A.; 2 Lt., Northamptonshire Regt., 1911; Capt. 1915; wounded; Instr. 1917–19; retd. as Major 1927; solicitor 1932; with Messrs. Middletons, of Leeds. M 20 April 1933, Muriel Winifred, d. of James Arthur Paul, Bramhope Hall, Leeds. Address 2, North Parade, West Park, Leeds 6. Club Naval and Military}}</ref>  A large pond named Paul's Pond  remains on the Cookridge Estate, having been named after William Paul,  the grandfather of Muriel Winifred Middleton.<ref>{{cite web |title=Breary March – Paul's Pond |url=https://www.leeds.gov.uk/parks-and-countryside/nature-reserves/breary-marsh |publisher=Leeds UK Government |access-date=14 August 2022}}</ref>

The builders of Cookridge Hall  used "rough rock" or boulders which still are still found in the landscape or quarried in fields known as "quarrels".<ref name=Cole1/> In the 18th century, Cookridge Hall was substantially remodelled, and many other buildings were improved, with stone replacing thatch.<ref name=Cole2>{{cite book |last=Cole |first=Don |date=1981 |title=Cookridge: The Story of a Yorkshire Township Part Two |publisher=D&J Thornton |isbn=0907339-034 }}</ref> At this time the road through Cookridge became busier with coaches from 1754 and earned money as a turnpike. Milestones and mounting stones from the period still survive. There were also more mills along Moseley Beck, notably the Silk Mill (demolished 1978) which gave its name to modern housing estate.<ref name=Cole2/> The Hall, which dates from {{circa|1764}}, along with its flanking screen walls, gate piers and gates, is a Grade II [[listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE|num=1375168|desc=Cookridge Hall with flanking screen walls, gate piers and gates| accessdate= 11 October 2020}}</ref> It was a home for people with [[epilepsy]] from 1955 to 1990 and in 1997 was opened by the [[List of mayors of Leeds|Lord Mayor of Leeds]] as a leisure club with a golf course.<ref name=Leoidis1997>[http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007717_164155 Leodis] Cookridge Hall Country Club Opening Ceremony</ref>

In the 19th century a new road was constructed (now the [[A660 road|A660 Otley Road]]), and the [[Bramhope Tunnel]] dug by Moseley farm for a rail line going north from Leeds to Harrogate. A large house called Cookridge Lodge and a tower added. It was demolished in 1970 to make way for an estate, but the gatepost and some outbuildings survive.<ref name=Cole2/> The Cookridge Estate was bought by Richard Wormald in 1820 and land  was sold in portions by his descendant Francis Wormald in the 1920s.<ref name=Cole>{{cite book |last=Cole |first=Don |date=2003 |title=An Early 20th c Housing Estate in a Yorkshire Parish |location=Leeds |publisher=Don Cole |isbn=0-9518016-9-4 }}</ref> In 1926 Cookridge became part of Leeds and the building of Cookridge village began in 1927 with a triangle of houses between Cookridge Lane, Moseley Wood Lane and Green Lane.<ref name=Cole2/> This was largely under the direction of architect Cecil Crowther and his builder brothers, taking advantage of subsidies from the Housing Acts of 1923–1925. Mavis Lane and Mavis Avenue are named after Cecil Crowther's daughter.<ref name=Cole/>  Crowther acted as estate agent and produced a 1930 brochure entitled ''Cookridge – Village of Youth'' extolling its virtues for newly-weds.<ref name=Crowther>C. H. Crowther (1930) ''Cookridge – Village of Youth'' reproduced in the booklet by Cole (above)</ref> This included a map showing 135 plots of an area largely bounded by Cookridge Lane to the east, Moseley Wood Lane to the south, and Cookridge Avenue to the north-west. There were six firms of builders, with different styles.<ref name=Cole/> Sporadic building continued, but it was after the [[Second World War]] that the majority of the estates were constructed, starting with 1948 Iveson and Ireland Wood; 1952 Tinshill, Silkmill and Woodnook; 1957 Moseley Wood; 1973 Holt Park; 1980 Spring Wood.<ref name=Cole2/> As the names suggest, these made major encroachments into woodland.

The water-tower was built in 1929 to supply Cookridge village<ref name=Cole/> on one of the highest points in [[Leeds]] at 198m (650 feet)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idld.srf?x=422905&y=441255&z=120&sv=422905,441255&st=4&mapp=idld.srf&searchp=s.srf&dn=763&ax=425500&ay=440500&lm=0 |title= Streetmap.co.uk- search results for 422905,441255|website=www.streetmap.co.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023082815/http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idld.srf?x=422905&y=441255&z=120&sv=422905%2C441255&st=4&mapp=idld.srf&searchp=s.srf&dn=763&ax=425500&ay=440500&lm=0 |archive-date=23 October 2012}}</ref> above sea level. Near the water-tower is [[Tinshill BT Tower]] (also known as Cookridge Tower), a prominent landmark.

==Sport==
Cookridge has three sports clubs: Cookridge Cricket Club,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cookridge.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719113205/http://cookridge.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 July 2012 |title=Cookridge Cricket Club website }}</ref> 
Cookridge Hall Golf Club, and the Leeds Modernians Sports Club <ref>{{cite web | url=http://leedsmodernians.com | title=Leeds Modernians Club website}}</ref> 
which has football, rugby and cricket teams. [[Bannatyne (company)|Bannatyne Group]] acquired Cookridge Hall in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wayman |first1=Rebecca |title=Bannatyne Group acquires Yorkshire hall and health club for seven-figure sum |url=https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2019/01/15/bannatyne-group-acquires-yorkshire-hall-and-health-club-for-seven-figure-sum |access-date=19 February 2021 |work=BDaily News |date=15 January 2019}}</ref>

==Cookridge Hospital==
[[File:Cookridge Hospital 19 Sep 2017 1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cookridge Hospital Main Building]]
[[File:Lighthouse School Leeds 27 Oct 2017.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Former Robert Arthington Hospital building, now a school]]
'''Cookridge Hospital''' opened in 1869 as a 'Hospital for the Convalescent Poor in Leeds'.<ref name=Burt>Steven Burt & Kevin Grady (2002) ''The Illustrated History of Leeds'', 2nd edn (Breedon Books, Derby) {{ISBN|185983 316 0}}</ref> It was built in a secluded area by clearing away part of [[Ireland Wood]], with a new road, Hospital Lane from Otley Old Road. The main building and the lodge, designed by [[Richard Norman Shaw|Norman Shaw]] in 1868, are Grade II [[listed building]]s.<ref name=Godward>Brian Godward (2004) The Changing Face of Leeds (Sutton Publishing, Stroud) {{ISBN|0-7509-3413-1}}</ref>  A further wing was added in 1893, the ''Edward Jackson Memorial Ward''. In 1888 a second set of buildings were opened, the ''Ida Hospital'', named in memory of Ida North, by her father John North. A further similar set of buildings were opened in 1905 named after the benefactor as ''Robert Arthington Hospital''.<ref name=LeodisIda>{{cite web |url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002820_75172061 |title=Cookridge Hospitals, Ida and Robert Arthington |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Leodis |accessdate=20 September 2017 }}</ref>

The buildings mainly functioned as longer-term convalescent facilities for patients treated in other Leeds hospitals, and were used for the care of wounded servicemen during both World Wars.<ref name=LeodisC>{{cite web |url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2011427_172073|title=Cookridge Convalescent Hospital, postcard|author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Leodis |accessdate=20 September 2017 }}</ref>  The whole complex was taken over by the Government in 1939 and part used as a maternity hospital until 1942.  In 1952 it became part of the NHS.<ref name=Story>{{cite book |author=<!--Various writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Story of a Cancer Hospital – Cookridge Hospital 1972–2006 |year=2006 |publisher=Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |isbn=978-0-85316-258-2}}</ref>  A 'High Energy Radiation Centre', providing treatment of tumours opened in 1956.<ref name=Leodis56>{{cite web |url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=201372_174562|title=Cookridge Hospital, Matron, Miss Elsie Jackson outside the laboratory and Dual-purpose Radiocobalt Unit|author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Leodis |accessdate=20 September 2017 }}</ref> From then on it developed into a major regional centre for [[radiotherapy]], with the Ida and Robert Arthington Hospitals becoming home to the Yorkshire Regional Cancer Organization in 1994.<ref name=Story/>

In 2007 it closed and all facilities were transferred to the [[St James's University Hospital, Leeds|St James's]] Oncology Unit (Bexley Wing) of [[Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/news/newsitem.php?newsID=285 |title=End of an era as final services transfer from Cookridge Hospital to brand new £220M cancer centre |author=Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |accessdate=7 April 2008 |date=14 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110927052405/http://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/news/newsitem.php?newsID=285 |archive-date=27 September 2011  }}</ref>
  
Much of the site was used for housing from 2010, with the listed building being retained for future development.<ref name=YEP2010>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Former Leeds hospital site sold for homes |url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/former-leeds-hospital-site-sold-for-homes-1-2236851 |work=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=8 January 2010 |accessdate=20 September 2017 }}</ref> The Robert Arthington Hospital was refurbished and opened in 2015 as the Lighthouse School for pupils with [[Autism spectrum|autistic spectrum]] conditions.<ref name=Lighthouse>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Specialist Lighthouse School opens after £2.1m investment|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/specialist-lighthouse-school-opens-after-2-1m-investment-1-7589963 |work=Yorkshire Post |date=25 November 2015|accessdate=20 September 2017}}</ref>

==Religion==
The Church of England parish church was formerly that of [[St John the Baptist Church, Adel]] until Holy Trinity, a brick building on Green Lane, was constructed in 1961. Cookridge Methodist Church is a brick building on the junction of Tinshill Road and Otley Old Road. Grace Community Church meets at Cookridge Village Hall.<ref>[https://www.gccleedsnorth.org/ Grace Community Church], accessed 8 March 2022</ref>
<gallery>
File:HolyTCookridge1.jpg|Holy Trinity Church
File:CookridgeMC09.jpg|Cookridge Methodist Church
File:Cookridge Village Hall 2009.jpg|Cookridge Village Hall
</gallery>

==Education==
The main primary schools in Cookridge are Holy Trinity Church of England (Aided) Primary School and Cookridge Primary School.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cookridgeprimaryschool.org.uk | title=Cookridge primary school website}}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Nick Hodgson]], former drummer of the [[Kaiser Chiefs]], was born here.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2005/02/22/music_interview_kaiser_chiefs_200502_feature.shtml|publisher=BBC.co.uk|title=Kaiser Chiefs: Leeds and proud|date=28 October 2014|accessdate=14 June 2017}}</ref>

==Location grid==
{{NSEW|[[Bramhope]]|[[West Park, Leeds|West Park]]|[[Adel, Leeds|Adel]]|[[Horsforth]]|||||}}

==See also==
*[[Listed buildings in Leeds (Adel and Wharfedale Ward)]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{cite web | url = http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Adel/index.html | title = The Ancient Parish of Adel | publisher = [[Genuki]] | accessdate=29 October 2007}} Cookridge was in this parish
* {{NHLE |num=1255595 |desc=Cookridge Hospital}}
* {{NHLE |num=1255594 |desc=Cookridge Hospital lodge}}
* {{NHLE |num=1375168 |desc=Cookridge Hall}}
* [https://cookridgehall.co.uk/golf/ Cookridge Hall website]

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