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Buslingthorpe
Buslingthorpe shown within West Yorkshire |
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| Metropolitan borough | City of Leeds |
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| Metropolitan county | West Yorkshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LEEDS |
| Postcode district | LS7 |
| Dialling code | 0113 |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK Parliament | Leeds Central |
| List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire | |
Buslingthorpe is an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It lies about one mile north of the city centre. Much of the housing in the area was demolished as slum clearance in the 1950s.
Buslingthorpe was an ecclesiastical parish 1849-1955.[1] In 1870-1872 it was a chapelry in the parish of Leeds, with a population of 4,548 in 998 houses.[2]
The Church of St Michael, Buslingthorpe, was built in 1852-1854 on Buslingthorpe Lane, and demolished in the late 1950s or early 1960s. The architect was O. W. Burleigh of Leeds.[3]
A writer in Notes and queries in 1932 noted that the place-name Buslingthorpe (shared with Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire) contains 13 different letters, exactly half the alphabet, none repeated and with no hyphenation, and wondered whether this was unique.[4]
Buslingthorpe Recreation Ground was renamed Norma Hutchinson Park in 2009 to commemorate Jamaican-born local councillor Norma Hutchinson who died in 2004.[5]