Bardsey, West Yorkshire

Bardsey
Main Street: The Bingley Arms in Bardsey, perhaps Britain's oldest pub
Bardsey  Bardsey shown within West Yorkshire
Civil parish	Bardsey cum Rigton
Metropolitan borough	City of Leeds
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LEEDS
Postcode district	LS17
Dialling code	01937
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Elmet
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Bardsey, West Yorkshire, England is a small village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, 8 miles (13 km) north east of Leeds city centre. The village is in the LS17 Leeds postcode district. It is part of the civil parish of Bardsey cum Rigton. The village itself lies just off the A58 road between Leeds and Wetherby.

Church Lane

All Hallows Church

It is a predominantly middle class area with a high proportion of retired residents. Housing is mixed; while most is private, there is council housing situated near Keswick Lane. Facilities include a public house, a sports club (which has an Under 14s and Under 16s football team), a dry cleaner and until March 2007, a garage. Bardsey also has a junior school and a Catholic church, which operates as a satellite to the main Catholic church in Wetherby.

It is a particularly historical area with:

• Mention in the 1086 Domesday Book as Berdesei/Bereleseie.
• The Bingley Arms, a pub that claims to be England's oldest public house, and recorded in the Domesday Book, although these claims are disputed.
• A motte-and-bailey castle, dating back to post 1066.
• The first Anglo-Saxon tower church in England.
• Earthworks of a Roman settlement named Pompocali, with a minor Roman road alongside it.
• The birthplace of literary genius William Congreve.

Until 1964 Bardsey had a railway station on the Leeds to Wetherby line

External links

• The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: All Hallows, Bardsey, West Yorkshire
• Archaeology of Pompocali Earthworks and Hetchell Crags by H.M. Hill
• Bardsey Village web-site
• Bardsey Cricket Club website
• "The Ancient Parish of Bardsey". GENUKI. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Bardsey/index.html. Retrieved 2007-10-29.