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Mabgate

Area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

Mabgate

Area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

Mabgate looking west, with Mabgate Mills on the right and a 1987 mural, designed by Janet de Wagt
Street sign on the north end of the street

Mabgate is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and the name of one of its streets. In Leeds City Council's Mabgate Development Framework (2007), "the area is bounded to the west by North Street; to the east by Macaulay Street; to the north by Mushroom Street and to the south by the New York Road". Mabgate, the street, continues for a short distance on the south side of New York Road (A64(M)). The area is in the Burmantofts and Richmond Hill ward of Leeds City Council. The area to the west of Regent Street is within the city centre boundary.

The name comes from 'Mab', meaning a prostitute (16th to 19th century) and 'gate' meaning a street (common in Yorkshire street names).

Development

Mabgate Hall, built on the site which later became the Black Horse public house, was built in 1673.

Maps from 1725 and 1771 show the region as open land, but by 1821 a named street (as is Skinner Lane) with buildings along much of its length had been built. A Rebecca Chadwick, widow of William Chadwick, is noted as living there in 1790, implying that development started prior to this date.

The area today contains four listed buildings: two on Mabgate, the Hope Foundry, and its offices, Hope House, and two in the former Leylands, the Smithfield Hotel on North Street; and Crispin House on New York Road. The Black Horse public house was built on the site of Mabgate Hall as the Black Bull Inn. It was rebuilt in 1868 as the Black Horse. The City of Mabgate Inn was converted to flats in 2006. It dates from 1857: the green area opposite was a cholera burial ground.

In 2020 it was named by Condé Nast Traveller as one of the coolest places to live in the UK. Leeds City College acquired a site on the east of Mabgate in 2020 which is being developed as a college campus.

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References

Location grid

References

  1. Leeds City Council (April 2007), [https://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/Mabgate%20Development%20Framework.pdf Mabgate Development Framework], accessed 15 June 2021
  2. A. H. Smith (1961) ''The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Part IV'' Cambridge University Press
  3. [[Oxford English Dictionary]]
  4. [http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/leeds-funny-place-names-from-mabgate-to-charlie-cake-park-1-4984303 ''Yorkshire Evening Post''] 2 October 2012 "Leeds funny place names"
  5. The area developed at the end of the 18th century when woollen mills were built along the [[Meanwood Beck
  6. Steven Burt & Kevin Grady (2002) ''The Illustrated History of Leeds'', 2nd edn (Breedon Books, Derby) {{ISBN. 185983 316 0
  7. Leeds Parish registers 1790
  8. 0-7509-3413-1
  9. Leeds City Council, [http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200439_81689090 Black Horse, Mabgate], ''www.leodis.net'', accessed on 24 June 2024
  10. [http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200341_1188296 www.leodis.net] City of Mabgate Inn.
  11. Jordan, Rick. (May 2020). "These are the coolest neighbourhoods in the UK". Condé Nast.
  12. Leeds City College, [https://leedscitycollegemabgate.co.uk/ Leeds City College Mabgate: Our Plans] accessed on 24 June 2024
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