Brudenell Road, one of the main roads through Hyde Park

Hyde Park is an inner-city area of north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, situated between Leeds University and Headingley. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1296x972, 375 KB) Photograph of Brudenell Road, Hyde Park, Leeds (28/03/2005). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1296x972, 375 KB) Photograph of Brudenell Road, Hyde Park, Leeds (28/03/2005). ... 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. ... University Tower, University of Leeds The University of Leeds (United Kingdom) is amongst the largest of British universities and the most popular by applicants, with 52,444 applicants in 2003 for 7,228 places (UCAS). ... Headingley Lane, Leeds Headingley is a suburb of the English city of Leeds in the county of Yorkshire. ...

It is mainly in the Hyde Park & Woodhouse ward, though some areas of what is often considered to be Hyde Park lie within the Headingley Ward. It is also the local name for Woodhouse moor which is a wooded moor between Woodhouse Lane and Hyde Park Road. The area is in the centre of the city's student community and has a laid-back, bohemian atmosphere. Being next to Headingley, a large student community, Hyde Park is now an established alternative student district. Alongside the students it also has a sizable South Asian community. Woodhouse is an area of largely back-to-back terraced housing in inner city north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. ... Freshman and Sophomore redirect here. ... Map of South Asia South Asia is a subregion of Asia comprising the modern states of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, . It covers about 4,480,000 km², or 10 percent of the continent, and is also known as the Indian subcontinent. ...

The area contains two mosques and alongside outlets primarily catering for the student population there remain a number of smaller shops selling largely traditional South Asian goods. This arguably lessens the impact of studentification, though some community groups do consider this to be a problem and tension exists ^[1]. The Masjid al-Haram in Mecca as it exists today A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ... Studentification is a neologism, coined to describe the effects that a large student population can have on an area. ...

Community

In July 2005, Hyde Park became the focus of international attention as police carried out a raid connected to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Officers used a controlled explosion to enter a property at 28 Alexandra Grove, situated roughly where the Hyde Park and Burley areas meet^[2]. Hundreds of local residents were evacuated as police searched the house, one of six in West Yorkshire to be raided that day. Despite media speculation the house had allegedly been used as a 'bomb factory' by the suicide bombers, police later said they found no explosives in the property. The 7 July 2005 London bombings were a series of coordinated terrorist bomb blasts that hit Londons public transport system during the morning rush hour. ...

The area suffers considerable social deprivation including high unemployment, bad housing stock and a high crime rate^[3]. In July 1995 the area suffered serious rioting after the taking over of a local pub, The Newlands, by the police to be used in surveillance ^[4]. The local community rallied and created Unity Day^[5] a popular community festival started by the Hyde Park Residents Association held on the moor, usually in August. An 1837 political cartoon about unemployment in the United States. ... Categories: Stub | Riots ...

Amenities

Hyde Park is the home of the Hyde Park Picture House, one of the finest examples of an independent, historic, art house cinema in the UK. It also is home to the Hyde Park Social Club , a members-only pub popular with students and those involved in the local music scene. The Royal Park, on Queen's Road, is a large pub with a downstairs gig venue, popular with the student population, and next door stands the Brudenell Social Club, a members club which has recently taken on a new role as one of the most popular venues for local and underground music. The area has several independent business, such as Popinas bistro and Moorish, a popular north African restaurant. In addition, Hyde Park is home to many student house and street parties. Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds, England was originally built as a hotel in 1908 and converted to a cinema in 1914. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... In the United States and the United Kingdom the term house party refers, typically, to a type of party where large groups of people (usually high school or college students) get together at a designated house, mainly for the purpose of consuming alcoholic beverages. ...

Chestnut Avenue

Chestnut Avenue in Hyde Park was the subject of many articles in 2001/02, including one in the Daily Mail asking Is this the most burgled street in Britain?^[6]. This is not shown in the police statistics ^[7] but the high student population with many valuable items in their houses are a common target for criminals. In fact, references to its being, 'The most-burgled street in Britain' go back as far as at least 1994. The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, a tabloid, first published in 1896. ...

References

1. ^ List of local residents groups concerned with Landlordism and Studentification from the Heal HeadingleyWebsite
2. ^ BBC News coverage of the suspected 'bomb factory
3. ^ Leeds statistics, area statistics for Burley/Hyde Park in pdf format
4. ^ Davis, Nick Dark Heart: The Shocking Truth About Hidden Britain, Vintage ISBN 0-09-958301-1
5. ^ Unity Day a festival held in Hyde Park
6. ^ Heal Headingley National Newspapers Archive 22.5.02
7. ^ Labour website, "Chestnut Avenue has been previously reported as ‘most burgled street In Britain’. Although this is disputed by police"