Gledhow is a suburb of north-east Leeds

Leeds

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, West Yorkshire

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, England

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, situated east of Chapel Allerton

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 and west of Roundhay

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. (It is within the Roundhay City Council

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 Ward

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.) A major feature of the area is Gledhow Valley, a strip of mixed deciduous woodland with a beck and lake. A bathhouse dating from 1671, the Gipton Spa, is in the woods. Running through the valley is Gledhow Valley Road, built in 1926.

Gledhow Lane crosses Gledhow Valley Road and on the Eastern side is a steep road up from the valley. The residential area near the top is known locally as "Little Switzerland".
In the area at the top of Gledhow Lane is Gledhow Hall, a 17th century mansion house and grade II listed building, once the home of James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale

James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale

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. It is now private flats. J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting...

 painted a watercolour view of Gledhow Hall in about 1816. Close by is another old building, Gledhow House.
Within the boundary of Gledhow is Gledhow Primary School.

Notable people

Leeds' only second world war

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 recipient of the Victoria Cross

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, Arthur Louis Aaron

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was born in Gledhow.