Buslingthorpe is an area of Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

, England

England

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. 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. In 1870-1872 it was a chapelry in the parish of Leeds, with a population of 4,548 in 998 houses.

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.

A writer in Notes and queries in 1932 noted that the place-name Buslingthorpe (shared with Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

) contains 13 different letters, exactly half the alphabet, none repeated and with no hyphenation, and wondered whether this was unique.

Buslingthorpe Recreation Ground was renamed Norma Hutchinson Park in 2009 to commemorate Jamaican-born local councillor Norma Hutchinson who died in 2004.

External links

• Old photographs of Buslingthorpe, with commentaries from Leeds City Council Leodis database