Oak Tree Drive, Gipton, West Yorkshire. This image illustrates four tower blocks on Oak Tree Drive.

Gipton is an early twentieth-century council estate between Harehills and Seacroft in north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It suffers from serious social problems and has long been considered one of the city's worst estates, although never being treated as a no-go area by the police or other services. Gipton is still home to many decent people whose parents had moved out of the slums in the 1930s/40s. ^{[citation needed]} Image File history File linksMetadata GiptonHousing. ... Image File history File linksMetadata GiptonHousing. ... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. ... Public housing describes a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. ... Harehills is an inner-city area of north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, adjacent to Chapeltown, characterised by its streets of dense, back-to-back terraced housing. ... View from Seacroft Village Green of the Cricketers Arms and the Queensview Flats with the shopping centre to the right. ... Leeds is a major city in West Yorkshire, England. ... 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 (de facto) 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    - 2006 est. ...

Roads & transport

The main roads that run through the area are Oakwood Drive, Oak Tree Drive and Amberton Road. Two of these are single-carriageway roads, while one is a dual carriageway (albeit as a residential road) - the road that has this status is Oak Tree Drive or, in local terms, Fairway Hill as the Fairway public house can be located at the top of this hill. This early German Autobahn uses a dual carriageway design. ... A residential area is a type of land use where the predominant use is residential. ...

Housing

Gipton is mainly comprised of semi-detached houses, with some terraced houses and some high-rise flats: these are common around this area of Leeds, as they are in Seacroft and Swarcliffe. High-rise is a 1975 novel by J. G. Ballard. ... Figure 1. ... View from Seacroft Village Green of the Cricketers Arms and the Queensview Flats with the shopping centre to the right. ...

Etymology of place-name

Gipton derives from Old English: the first element is a personal name: in this case, it is Gippa (same as in Ipswich, although almost certainly not the same man!) and tun "village, settlement, farm" (here, it refers to a village). The town's name was recorded as Cepetun, suggesting village with a market, suggesting a trading-town, or residence of the traders, as with Market Weighton. The first element of the name in the Domesday Book record wrongly suggests Old English ceap "market, trading-place", but it was a corruption of the personal name, Gippa. However, a record from 1018 as Gipentune proves that the first element is a personal name, not a noun. 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. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Anthroponym. ... Timber framed buildings in St Nicholas Street The Ancient House is decorated with a particularly fine example of pargeting Ipswich (pronounced Ip-Switch) is the county town of Suffolk and a non-metropolitan district in East Anglia, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. ... Market Weighton is a small town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. ... A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ... 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. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Anthroponym. ... In English, a noun or noun substantive is a lexical category which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. ...

Trivia

In local parlance, those that live in or originate from Gipton are known as Giptoners, or more recently, youths have adopted the term 'Giptonites' [Like Kryptonite] ^{[citation needed]}

The large Church of the Epiphany located on Beech Lane was constructed in 1936-1938 by NF Cachemaille-Day, and is a Grade I listed building. Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...

St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Primary School, on St Wilfrid's Circus, was opened in 1975 after the old school, off Harehills Road, ran into a dilapidated state. The first Headteacher at the new school was Mrs. Fleming. The school was once again re-built in 1993 after a fire destroyed the whole building early one morning in 1990.