Richmond Hill, Leeds
| Richmond Hill | |
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 Shopping Mart and Church Hall, Upper Accommodation Road |
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 Richmond Hill
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| Richmond Hill shown within West Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SE316334 |
| Metropolitan borough | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LEEDS |
| Postcode district | LS9 |
| Dialling code | 0113 |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK Parliament | |
Richmond Hill is a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The district lies one mile to the east of the city centre. It lies between York Road (A64 road), East End Park and Cross Green. The appropriate City of Leeds ward is called Burmantofts and Richmond Hill. Since around 2000, the city centre has encroached into the Richmond Hill area. In May 2012 it was reported that the area has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the United Kingdom, with one in ten girls in the area becoming pregnant by the age of 18.
Richmond Hill developed as both a residential and industrial area during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Housing in the area was originally small, individual cottages for local workers, during the industrial revolution however, many streets of back-to-back terrace houses to house many of the industrial workers in the area. Upper Accommodation Road is the historic heart of the area with some of the more historic buildings on the West side, newer ones on the East. A 1902 Leeds Industrial Co-operative building from 1902 is on a corner with East park Road. In the twentieth century much of the housing stock was updated with schemes such as the Saxton Gardens housing scheme. The Saxton Gardens estate has been redeveloped by Urban Splash to create 410 homes, complete with allotments and the largest communal garden in the city.
There are 4 churches in the area. On top of the hill itself is the Church of England Parish Church of St Saviour, a Grade I listed building from 1845, founded by Edward Bouverie Pusey. Nearby is the now redundant Roman Catholic Church of Mount St Mary's (opened 1857, closed 1989). This was built to serve the Irish community which had come to live in the area (then slum housing and industry known as The Bank) by the 1850s, and was reckoned to be the largest parish church in Europe. Close by. Mount St Mary's Catholic High School originates from a convent school to serve the same community. On the York Road is a small building, All Saints Church (now closed) built in 1980 to replace an earlier and larger church of the same name. On Upper Accommodation Road is Newbourne Methodist Church.
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