Ledsham, West Yorkshire
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Ledsham is a village and civil parish Template:Convert north of Castleford and Template:Convert east of Leeds in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The village is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough and near to the A1(M) motorway. It had a population of 162 at the 2001 Census,<ref>Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Leeds Template:Webarchive retrieved 10 September 2009</ref> increasing to 181 at the 2011 Census.<ref name="NOMIS">Template:NOMIS2011</ref>
History
Ledsham is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ledesha, as belonging to Ilbert of Lacy and having six villagers, three ploughlands, and Template:Convert of meadow.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, it was recorded in a charter from 1030 as Ledesham. Like nearby Ledston, the name seems to refer to Leeds (or the Old English precursor of this name, Loidis, which denoted a region rather than a town); the second element is the Old English word hām ('homestead, farm'). The name thus meant 'the farm belonging to the region of Loidis'.<ref>Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. LEDSHAM WYorks.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Ledsham was an ancient parish in the wapentake of Barkston Ash in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The parish included the townships of Fairburn and Ledston,<ref>Template:Genuki</ref> which became separate civil parishes in 1866.<ref name=vob>Template:Cite vob</ref>
Geography
To the east is Selby Fork junction, which is also partly in South Milford, in North Yorkshire, but previously in the West Riding; in the early 1960s, the M62 motorway was planned to have its eastern terminus at Ledsham, possibly at the Selby Fork junction.<ref>Liverpool Echo Thursday 13 July 1961, page 18</ref>
Notable buildings
The late seventh-century Anglo-Saxon All Saints church is the oldest church and the oldest building standing in West Yorkshire,<ref>1987 publication by West Yorkshire Archaeology Service: HC/2/SW,CP "Historic Churches of West Yorkshire - Ledsham Church"</ref> and includes memorials to Lady Elizabeth Hastings and her family.
Ledston Hall is a Grade I listed house with parts dating back to the 13th century.<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
Education
The village school, like schools in Collingham and Thorp Arch, was named after Lady Elizabeth Hastings. The school is now located in the nearby village of Ledston,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> which was rated as good by OFSTED in 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Sports
Ledsham has a cricket team, which currently plays in the York league.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Governance
Since 1974 Ledsham has been a part of the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is its own civil parish, and is in the Kippax and Methley ward for local affairs, and is in the Elmet and Rothwell Constituency for national level politics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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