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Woodhouse Ridge
Woodhouse Ridge is a strip of woodland on the South West hillside of the Meanwood valley in urban area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Locally known as 'The Ridge', the area is notable as a significant area of mature woodland in an otherwise highly developed urban area. The woods are centred at grid reference 53.820061,-1.560144〔(Google Maps )〕 and are enclosed by Meanwood Road to the east and by Headingley to the north and Woodhouse, Leeds to the South.
The Ridge has a number of interesting features, including a Victorian bandstand, a world war two air raid shelter, a packhorse bridge, the Meanwood Beck and allotments, all connected by a network of public footpaths.
==History==
The Ridge is one of the few remaining woodland areas of the ancient manor of Leeds.〔(Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds - Display )〕 The area was set aside for leisure activities from at least 1846, when it was partly quarried open moorland with a network of paths.〔(Forest of Leeds - Woodhouse Ridge & Sugarwell Hill )〕 This network of paths and a bandstand is visible in photographs from the early twentieth century, at which time the area was much more open than it is today, with areas of moorland and views across the undeveloped valley to Farm Hill and Sugar Well Hill.〔(Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds - Display )〕〔(Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds - Display )〕〔(Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds - Display )〕 The public area was expanded in 1901 with the addition of Batty's Wood, an area of oak and ash woodland that is shown on John Tuke's 1781 map of common land in Leeds district as "Battye Wood", located on steeply sloping land above Meanwood Beck, its western flank marked by a fooptpath to the bridge crossing to former Bentley Common. Battye or Batty's's Wood was a gift from Alderman John Warburton to the City of Leeds.〔(Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds - Search results )〕 In 1974, the abandoned mill buildings and silted millpond abutting the Meanwood Beck, which were believed to have dated from at least 1610 were acquired by the City Council, demolished and the site planted with trees and a grassy glade and added to The Ridge's parkland.
The nickname 'The Ridge' is captured in the names of three local streets: Ridge Road, which runs from Meanwood Road up to The Ridge's southern entrance, Ridge Grove, a short residential street off Meanwood Road backing on to the woodland and Ridge Terrace which leads to the northern Headingley entrance, from Wood Lane.
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