Colton Community Online

Providing news and information about Colton Village in Leeds

LOCAL LINKS

Please find below a few useful & interesting links to sites relating to Colton & surrounding area.

• Welcome to Whitkirk
Run by Mike Jackson, this site has been established since 1995 & chronicles most thing that happen in & around Whitkirk.

• Colton Cricket Club

Keep up to date with all the details of all four senior sides as well as being able to keep abreast of all the action off the field.

• East Leeds History and Archaelology Society (ELHAS)
The Society exists to research and promote knowledge of the past through lectures, displays and a twice-yearly publication (The Leeds History Journal). In addition, the Society also runs the East Leeds Heritage Centre at Cross Gates Library, where regular displays and exhibitions take place.

• Thorpe Park

The region's premier business park & soon to be home of the first green park in Leeds for over a 100 years.

• Colton Primary School Website
School Lane, Colton, Leeds

• Austhorpe Primary School Website
Austhorpe Lane, Leeds, LS15 8TP

• Temple Newsam House & Grounds
A Leeds City Council site all about Temple Newsam house & its grounds

• The Knights Templar

A local BBC site about the Knights Templar at Temple Newsam & Colton

• Temple Newsam Woodland
Another Leeds City Council site with details of the woodland surrounding Temple Newsam house.

• Crossgates Today

Online local newspaper.

• Leodis

Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds

• Secret Leeds

A site dedicated to investigating quirky, unusual or mysterious aspects of the built environment of the city of Leeds, both past and present.
Some good stuff here about local mining .. click on this link to go straight to it....

• Great Yorkshire Trees
Did you know that the oldest trees in Leeds are in Colton?
An unusual, but strangely interesting site about Yorkshire's old trees!

• Barwick-in-Elmet Tennis Club

Barwick-in-Elmet Tennis Club is a well established club for players of all ages and abilities. The friendly nature of the club accommodates those who wish to enjoy the social benefits of the game, but at the same time there is the opportunity to play in a competitive environment, enter the club tournaments and become involved in representing the club in the Barkston Ash League.

• John Smeaton name plate*


John smeaton was born in Austhorpe - it is a old district between crossgates, whitkirk and colton, to the east of the city. he went to leeds grammar school, and today has a school named after him.

* See also...
• The blue plaques of Leeds

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