Hyde Park, Leeds

Hyde Park
A typical terrace and corner shop off Royal Park Road
Hyde Park is located in Leeds
Hyde Park
Hyde Park
Hyde Park is located in West Yorkshire
Hyde Park
Hyde Park
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLEEDS
Postcode districtLS6
Dialling code0113
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53°48′41″N 1°34′21″W / 53.81141°N 1.57245°W / 53.81141; -1.57245

Hyde Park is an inner-city residential area of north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, situated between the University of Leeds and Headingley. It sits in the Headingley and Hyde Park ward of Leeds City Council.

The area is in the centre of the city's student community, being next to Headingley, another large student community. There are also many full-time, long-term, non-student families and single people, and a sizable South Asian community.

Before the dense speculative developments of red brick terraced housing in the late Victorian era, the area was the site of the Leeds Royal Park pleasure ground, quarries, and fields in the estate of the Earl of Cardigan.[1] The Hyde Park name was extended to the new neighbourhoods from Hyde Park Corner on the A660, with that nucleus historically being known as Wrangthorn.[2]

  1. ^ Trowell, Frank (May 1982a). Nineteenth-Century Speculative Housing in Leeds (PDF) (PhD). Vol. 1. University of York.
  2. ^ "A History of Hyde Park" (PDF). Hyde Park Neighbourhood Plan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2020.