Pendas Fields
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Coordinates: 53°48′40″N 1°25′48″W / 53.811°N 1.430°W
Pendas Fields is a private, suburban housing estate in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is considered part of Cross Gates, as is Manston. Swarcliffe is close, and Cock Beck runs nearby.
Pendas Fields and Barnbow Wood may have been the site of the Battle of Winwaed in 655AD (thus the name "Pendas fields" named after the King of Mercia who died at the battle, Penda),
It has its own sports centre and secondary school — John Smeaton Community College, named after 18th-century civil engineer John Smeaton.
Pendas Fields once had a railway station on the Cross Gates to Wetherby Line. The station was situated on Pendas Way and was named thus.
[edit] External links
- John Smeaton Community High School
- Pendas Fields as the location of the battle
- The Ancient Parish of Barwick in Elmet at GENUKI: Pendas Fields was in this parish
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