Cookridge
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Cookridge is an outer suburb of north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a mixture of suburban, twentieth-century council housing, and sometimes quite grand private housing.
Traces of a roman road exist between Cookridge and Bramhope.
Apart from a few farms, the original part of the area was developed as Cookridge Village in the 1930's and was developed by a number of local builders. In the 1950's and 1960's an ancient wood called Moseley Wood, which in the Middle Ages was famous all over England for the footpaths through out it, was developed into a large private housing estate.
Cookridge Hall is a grand building which was formerly a stately home and is now a leisure club and golf course.
Cookridge also has a famous son Nick Hodgson who is drummer for the Kaiser Chiefs.
Nearby places include Adel, Holt Park, Tinshill, Horsforth and Bramhope.