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John Cossins (1697 in Brompton-by-Sawdon – 1743) was an early cartographer, known for the following city maps: plan of Leeds (c.1730) titled "A New and Exact Plan of the Town of Leedes" [1] map of York (1726): "New and Exact Plan of the City of York" This displayed fashionable new houses around the margin of the map. [2]
It ends at a major junction with the Leeds Inner Ring Road, where it merges with New Briggate, and the two continue together as North Street. Listed buildings on the west side of the street include the early-19th century General Eliott pub, [5] early-20th century 49-51 Vicar Lane, [6] the Victoria Leeds complex of arcades, [7] and the Grand ...
The Anglo-Saxon Leeds Cross was found when the church was replaced by the current Leeds Minster, in the 19th century. By the time of the Domesday Book, Leeds also had a manor house, which lay on the street. The street became associated with cloth manufacturing, and in 1711, the First White Cloth Hall was constructed on the street.
The area's entertainment venues are Leeds Arena, are Leeds Academy, Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. Millennium Square anchored by the civic hall was a flagship project to mark the year 2000. It hosts regular concerts, with past performers including the Kaiser Chiefs , Bridewell Taxis , HARD-Fi , Fall Out Boy and Embrace .
Briggate's name comes from brycg, the Old English for bridge and gata, the Old Norse for a way or a street. [1] [2] It is the road leading north from Leeds Bridge, the oldest crossing point of the River Aire, and the main street in Leeds from its formation as a borough in 1207. [3]
The street originated in the Medieval period, running between the town's manor house and the main street of Briggate, its name believed to be a corruption of the word "borough". [1] By the 18th century, the street was entirely built up. Between 1869 and 1876, it was widened, to provide better access to the New and Wellington railway stations ...
1866 map of Leeds 19th-century Briggate, Leeds. In 1801, 42% of the population of Leeds lived outside the township, in the wider borough. Cholera outbreaks in 1832 and 1849 caused the authorities to address the problems of drainage, sanitation, and water supply. Water was pumped from the River Wharfe, but by 1860 it was too heavily polluted to ...
A 1560 map of Leeds As the sixteenth century drew to a close, and while the seventeenth was still young, the towns-folk of Leeds secured in the first instance at their own cost, in the second by a strictly limited Royal favour two important privileges—the right of electing their own vicar and of governing themselves in municipal affairs.