Moor Grange
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Moor Grange Estate was built near the West Park area of Leeds in the 1950s, on reclaimed farm land known as Old Farm. It was originally owned by the local council, and was leased by the council to tenants as a council estate. Most of the housing on the estate is now privately owned.
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[edit] Education
Moor Grange was also the name of a boys' county secondary school sited across the ring road. In the latter stages of its life it was renamed Moor Grange High School. It had a football pitch, a cricket square, a rugby field, an athletics area including long jump, high jump and pole vault, a running track of 440 yards and two tennis courts. It also boasted a gym and its assembly hall was frequently used as an additional gym. It has since been demolished and a HM Revenue and Customs House has been built on the site. On the junction of Spen Lane and Butcher Hill is West Park County Secondary (Girls) School. Abbey Grange School is located on Butcher Hill near to Hawksworth.
[edit] Buildings
Moor Grange has three rows of shops which include newsagents, butchers, and grocers. It does not have a church but close by on West Park is the West Park United Reformed Church. Another church was built in the late 1960s called St Andrews on the junction of Butcher Hill and Old Park Drive which is technically on the Spen estate. Details on the St Andrews web site . The row of shops that has the Co-op is technically on the Spen Estate and used to contain a Milk delivery dairy and in the 70's a Fish and Chip Shop opened which was formely a butcher shop.
[edit] Demographics
Most Street names are preceded by Old Farm, Latchmere, Moor Grange and Fillingfir. It also benefits from three large grassed areas for recreation. Close by for fishing are Clayton Ponds. Some old and recent pictures of the estate can be seen on the Leodis website which has a large collection of photos from Leeds and surrounding areas. It is circled by the West Park section of the Leeds Outer Ring Road, Spen Lane and Butcher Hill. There are three high rise blocks of flats: one on Butcher Hill called Moor Grange Court; the other two are Clayton Grange and Clayton Cout at the bottom of Fillingfir Drive. At the corner of Old Farm Parade are three sets of maisonettes which have recenetly been renovated on the outside.
[edit] Roads
Old Farm Drive. Old Farm Close. Old Farm Garth. Old Farm Cross, Old Farm Walk. Old Farm Approach. Old Farm Parade. Latchmere Road, Latchmere Approach. Latchmere Green, Latchmere Cross. Latchmere View. Latchmere Drive. Latchmere Gardens. Latchmere Walk. Latchmere Crest. Latchmere Close. Fillingfir Drive. Fillingfir Road and Fillingfir Walk.
Moor Grange View, Moor Grange Rise, Moor Grange Drive and some of West Park Drive were built before the rest and probably around the same time as some of the houses on West Park. Technically they can be said to be part of the Moor Grange Estate.
[edit] Location
Leeds City Square is about 4 miles to the south east. To the north is the Ireland Wood estate. To the South are Kirkstall, Hawksworth and Headingley. Horsforth is close by and has its own web site.
[edit] Transport
Moor Grange had a number of bus routes either passing through or terminating/starting on the estate. LCT bus route number 74 went from Moor Grange to Bell Isle; route number 76 from Moor Grange to Middleton; route 73 went from Moor Grange to Greenthorpe. West Yorkshire Bus route number 655 went from Leeds to Bradford and the similar route 755 went the same route except for a small diversion at Rawdon. Although the 655 and 755 didn't actually enter or transit Moor Grange they did skirt the estate via Spen lane and Butcher Hill. These routes have been either discontinued or re-routed due to the deregulation of the bus routes in the 1980s. Route 135 was a school bus route and operated the same route as the 74 but terminated at the Beckett Park estate; it ran through the week purely for pupils of Beckett Park Junior mixed and Infant School. But you can come here by car too. We should know.
Leeds Bradford International Airport is approximately 4 miles to the north west. The Harrogate Line railway passes near to Moor Grange and is the northern terminus for the First Leeds overground bus route 56 to Whinmoor via Headingley and Leeds City Centre.
[edit] Pubs
Moor Grange has one pub called The Dalesman on the junction of Butcher Hill and Old Farm Approach. Close by are The Bridge at the bottom of Butcher Hill (geographically in Horsforth), The Hark To Rover at the bottom of Spen lane which was originally a row of shops. Approximately 2 miles away down Queenswood Drive is The Duttons Arms.
[edit] Trivia
Moor Grange was used as a backdrop for the TV series The Beiderbecke Affair which featured shots from Abbey Grange School and Butcher Hill playing fields.
Moor Grange is also used as one of the locations for the TV series Fat Friends.
Moor Grange is also the name of a row of houses in Yeadon situated on Victoria Road (A658).
A bonfire is held every year on the 5th of November (Bonfire Night) on the field that is bordered by Old Fram Drive.
Although Moor Grange was built on the site of an Old Farm there are more street names beginning with Latchmere than they are Old Farm and only three beginning with Moor Grange. Three roads also commence with the name Fillingfir and the high rise flats commence with .. 1 with Moor Grange and 2 with Clayton.
