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About Pudsey:
Pudsey is a market town and
suburb of Leeds, between Bradford and Leeds. It
is part of the City of Leeds metropolitan
borough.
Pudsey constitutes the areas
of Fartown, Troydale, Littlemoor, Lowtown, and
Uppermoor. There is also the village of Fulneck,
the district of Stanningley and part of the
district of Tyersal.
Pudsey has given its name to
"Pudsey Bear", the mascot of the BBC's annual
fundraising marathon Children in Need. It also
lends its name to the local parliamentary
constituency of Pudsey, of which it is a part.
The name Pudsey occurs in the
1086 Domesday Book as "Podechesaie" and "Podechesai",
but in the early 6th century Pudsey and the
neighbourhood appear to have been the centre of
the considerable Kingdom of Elmet, which
retained its independence for more than 200
years after other more petty kingdoms had been
subdued by the Angles.
The town was famous in the
18th and 19th centuries for its wool
manufacture, and, from the 19th century, for
cricket. Yorkshire and England cricketers Sir
Len Hutton, Herbert Sutcliffe, Ray Illingworth
and Matthew Hoggard all learned to play in
Pudsey. One of the 19th century Yorkshire
cricketers John Tunnicliffe was born in Lowtown.
There are several
recreational parks in Pudsey, the largest is
Pudsey Park; features include Pets Corner,
aquarium, bird houses, tropical greenhouse, a
"Pudsey Bear" (made of vegetation) and a large
play area for children. There is also Queens
Park where the Pudsey carnival is held once a
year.
Pudsey's market operates on
Tuesday, Friday and Saturday
and has
recently been refurbished.
Pudsey has also seen the introduction of
a monthly farmers' market with a range of stalls
selling meat, fish, dairy produce, organic fruit
and vegetables, delicatessen and craft-ware.
There are three high schools
situated in the Pudsey boundary: Crawshaw,
Priesthorpe and Pudsey Grangefield, which is
currently undergoing an extensive redevelopment
programme which sees a whole new
state-of-the-art school building constructed
adjacent to the current site. The front grammar
school building, opened in 1911 and a prominent
landmark of Pudsey, will be converted into flats
and not demolished, unlike the rest of the
school, due to its listed building status.
Pudsey's historic town hall
is benefiting from a new, energy-efficient
lighting project to highlight its most
interesting features. The multi-coloured lights
can be changed to offer 255 different scenes.
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