12 Facts About Headingley

From Viking times, Headingley was the centre of the Skyrack wapentake or Siaraches, the "Shire oak".

Map of 1711 shows Headingley as having a chapel, cottages and farmsteads scattered around a triangle of land formed by the merging of routes from north, west and south.

The pub Headingley Taps is so called because it was formerly a water pumping station.

Close by in Far Headingley are in close proximity The New Inn, The Three Horseshoes and Woodies.

In Headingley Central there is a Sainsbury's, a Wilko, a Boots the Chemist and several other chain shops as well as a small multi-storey car park.

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Until 2005, Headingley had two cinemas, 'The Lounge' and 'The Cottage Road Cinema' .

The Lounge Cinema in the centre of Headingley has since closed and is being redeveloped as office and living accommodation, leaving only Cottage Road in Far Headingley.

Headingley killed 20-year-old Jacqueline Hill – the last of the 13 women he killed – in the area on 17 November 1980.

Hinsley Hall in Headingley is the pastoral and conference centre for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds.

Parts of Headingley are included in Conservation areas established by Leeds City Council.

Mid-19th century listed building Spring House in St Michael's Road, Headingley, was operating as a welfare centre during the Great War and was the permanent address for matters relating to VAD nurses during this time; Olive Middleton, great-grandmother of the Princess of Wales, gave her permanent address as "Spring House, St Michael's Road, Headingley" when living and working at Gledhow Hall and elsewhere as a VAD nurse during the Great War.

Parts of Headingley stood in for Northern Ireland in Harrys Game, and A Touch of Frost used locations in the area.