Headingley is also the name of a city in Manitoba, Canada. See Headingley, Manitoba for information on that city.

For the cricket and rugby stadium, see Headingley Stadium.

Headingley is a suburb of the English city of Leeds in the county of Yorkshire. It is approximately two miles out of the city centre, to the north west along the A660.

Headingley was previously a village as early as 250 BC, and was the village in which the Celtic tribes met to discuss the important matters. They met underneath a huge oak tree and the last one fell in 1941. It continued to be a village until the expansion of Leeds during the industrial revolution. It became a popular suburb where the rich moved to escape the filth of Leeds. The pub "The Original Oak" now stands near the site of the tree stump of the tree where the Celts met. Other pubs include The Three Horseshoes, Woodies Alehouse, The New Inn, The Arc, The Box, Trio and The Skyrack.

As it is close to both the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University campuses, it has become a very popular student area. This has had both positive and negative consequences on the local population and environment. The biggest complaints against students (and increasingly, young professionals) relate to the use of multiple-occupancy houses which are prone to burglary, often neglected by landlords and occupants alike and are typically left unoccupied during university holidays. However, the student population has brought a lot of money into the area (in the form of the Otley Run), improved public transport and, generally, made it a highly desirable place to live for a select portion of the population. This latter attribute has driven up property prices in the area: in summer 2003, the average property price was £151,604 (approximately £9,000 less than the national average but £30,000 more than the Leeds average).

Headingley is also known in sporting circles - its stadium (known as Headingley) is home to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club as well as the Leeds Rhinos rugby league and Leeds Tykes rugby union clubs.

Politically, Headingley is in the Leeds (North West) constituency. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat), who became the first Liberal Democrat MP in West Yorkshire in the 2005 General Election, largely as a result of the influential student vote in the constituency. At a local government level, the ward of Headingley has Liberal Democrat councillors: Martin Hamilton, David Morton and James Monaghan.

See also

• Headingley Stadium
• Headingley railway station

External links

• Headingley Online Headlingley Online Community Website.
• Heal Headingley community web site maintained by residents.
• Headingley Community Website maintained by the Council.

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