Aberford is a village on the eastern outskirts of the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is a civil parish, with a population of 1059 according to the 2001 census. A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... The City of Leeds is a metropolitan borough with city status in West Yorkshire in northern England, stretching from Otley and Wetherby in the north, on the border with North Yorkshire, to the border with the district of Wakefield in the south, and from Pudsey on the border with the... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...

History

Aberford was held to be the midway point between London and Edinburgh, being around 320 km (200 miles) distant from each city and lying as it does on the ancient Great North Road, until the construction of the A1 bypass starting at Hook Moor. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Edinburgh (pronounced ; Scottish Gaelic: ) is the capital of Scotland and its second-largest city. ... km redirects here. ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ... The city of Chicago, as seen from the sky A city is an urban area that is differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ... Sign at Junction 1 of the A1(M) at South Mimms in Hertfordshire The A1, at 409 miles (658 km) long, is the longest numbered British road. ... Also known as the Great North Road. ... Bypass routes are a type of bannered highway usually used when the main route of the highway goes through a town and an alternate route of the same highway goes around the highway. ...

It lies in the ancient Kingdom of Elmet, the name now given to the local parliamentary constituency. The name 'Aberford' is of Anglo-Saxon origin, approximately translating as 'the crossing over the river', indicating the once strategic importance of the settlement. Aberford is supposed to have once had a reputation for making pins. Elmet is an area of West Yorkshire in England. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ...

Some of the historic features of Aberford are:

• The White Swan Hotel, previously a staging post used by those travelling the Great North Road
• The Arabian Horse inn, one of only a very few public houses in the UK with this name
• The buried remains of a Roman Fort beneath Aberford House
• The intersection between the Great North Road and the disused railway line known as the Fly Line (previously an old Roman road which joined Ermine Street near York), popular with ramblers
• Bisecting the village a stream known as Cock Beck (previously Cock River) famous from the Battle of Towton.
• Proximity to Hazlewood Castle
• Proximity to Parlington Hall, Lotherton Hall and the Becca Hall Estates

The village also contains a number of functional buildings, such as Aberford C of E Primary School, affiliated with the St Ricarius Parish Church of England adjacent to it. The school was originally a tithe barn. Towards the southern boundary of the village lie the Aberford Almshouses, built by the Gascoigne Sisters Isabella and Elizabeth in the 1840s to commemorate their father and two brothers who died in quick succession in 1842 and 1843. Originally serving as an asylum, it is today a thriving business centre. At the northern boundary lies the A64 road from Leeds to York and Scarborough. A place for passing travellers to stay the night and have food before continuing with their journeys the next day. ... The Arabian horse is a breed of horse with a reputation for intelligence, high spirit, and outstanding stamina. ... Ermine Street should not be confused with Ermin Street, the road from Silchester to Gloucester. ... York is a city in northern England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ... // What is walking? Walking is the main form of animal locomotion on land, distinguished from running and crawling. ... Cock Beck is a stream in the outlying areas of East Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which runs from its source due to run-off close to Whinmoor skirting Swarcliffe and Manston (where a public house has been named The Cock Beck), through Pendas Fields, Scholes-in-Elmet, Barwick-in-Elmet... The Battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses was the bloodiest ever fought on British soil, with casualties believed to have been in excess of 20,000 (perhaps as many as 30,000) men. ... Hazlewood Castle is a country residence situated by the A1 and A64 between Aberford and Tadcaster, Leeds, West Yorkshire. ... Parlington Hall was the seat of the Gascoigne family, it was abandoned after the death of Colonel Frederick Charles Trench Gascoigne in June 1905. ... Lotherton Hall is an Edwardian era country residence near Aberford, Leeds, West Yorkshire. ... Becca Hall is a country residence situated in Aberford, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England at OS grid reference Lat. ... Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ... The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[1] in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ... A tithe barn was a type of barn used in England in the Middle Ages for storing the tithes - a tenth of the farms produce which had to be given to the church. ... Categories: Stub ... The A64 is a dual carriageway in the United Kingdom, which carries much of the commuter traffic between Leeds and York, continuing on to Scarborough. ... York is a city in northern England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ... Statistics Population: 50,135[1] Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TA040880 Administration District: Scarborough Shire county: North Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: North Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (North Riding) Services Police force: North Yorkshire Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire...

Parlington Estate

The Parlington Estate holds a monument to the independence of the United States, built by a member of the Gascoigne family (Sir Thomas Gascoigne, last of the Gascoigne blood line). Inscribed on both elevations is the phrase "Liberty in N.America Triumphant MDCCLXXXIII". The Parlington estate holds many artefacts and constructions of interest, in particular the 'Dark Arch', a short curved tunnel along Parlington Lane reputed to be haunted. It was built c.1812 to shield the residents of Parlington Hall from the traffic passing along Parlington Lane, mostly horse drawn coal traffic, as it was taken to the village distribution point in Aberford for onward travel into the local market. A manufactured image of a ghostly woman ascending a staircase. ... Parlington Hall was the seat of the Gascoigne family, it was abandoned after the death of Colonel Frederick Charles Trench Gascoigne in June 1905. ...

The lane was later developed to provide a private railway to transport the coal from the pits in Garforth to the Aberford Coal Staithes, commonly called the "Fly Line". The railway closed in 1922. Parlington Hall was left to run to ruins from 1905 after the death of Col F. C. T. Gascoigne, the Hall was largely demolished in the 1950s and 1960s, though the west wing is still intact. The estate was used by the army during the First World War and Second World War, the structures built during Second World War and still in existence today (2005) were constructed by the soldiers of No.3 Vehicle Repair Depot, part of Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Garforth is a town at the eastern edge of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Aberford today

Aberford's population growth has historically been around the road, and so the village has developed a linear rather than nucleated profile. Since the early 1990s much new housing has been constructed in the village, as increasing affluence allows people to move away from city centres to rural and suburban areas. The word linear comes from the Latin word linearis, which means created by lines. ... The eukaryotic cell nucleus. ... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... Wealth is an abundance of items of economic value, or the state of controlling or possessing such items, and encompasses money, real estate and personal property. ... Rural area in Dalarna, Sweden Qichun, a rural town in Hubei province, China Rural areas (also referred to as the country, countryside) are sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ...

Geologically, Aberford lies slightly east of the narrow basal sandstone boundary between central Leeds' soft Coal Measures and much harder magnesium limestone deposits, and sits in an area shaped heavily by subsidence of the underlying Coal Measures. Statistics Population: 443,247 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE297338 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Leeds Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Fire and... A coal measure (stratigraphic unit) is the name given to any rock sequence that occurs in the upper part of the Carboniferous System in Europe. ... A road destroyed by subsidence and shear. ...

External links

• Recently updated Aberford community website with local news and parish council information
• The History of Parlington Hall and its surroundings'
• Leeds's geology
• Aberford C of E School
• Roman Roads in Britain (large map, recommended that this is opened in a separate window)
• Details on the Great North Road
• The Aberford Railway (Fly Line), at the LNER Encyclopedia