COOKRIDGE

'Cookridge' is an outer suburb of north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a mixture of suburban, twentieth-century private housing and a small amount of council housing bordering Tinshill.
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 1930s and was developed by a number of local builders. In the 1950s and 1960s 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. In the 1970s further land between Tinshill Road and Green Lane was developed to create the area known locally as 'The Dale Parks'.
Cookridge Hall is a grand building which was formerly a stately home and is now a leisure club with a golf course. [1]
Cookridge is also home to two sports clubs, Cookridge Cricket Club and Old Modernians Sports Club which has Football, Rugby and Cricket Teams of different standards.
Cookridge Hospital [2] (which is actually nearer to Horsforth than it is to Cookridge) specialises in the treatment of cancer but these facilities are due to be transferred to other hospitals in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Near Cookridge Hospital is Tinshill, whose water-tower is at one of the highest points in Leeds - 690 feet (227 metres) above sea level, some 8 feet higher than Leeds Bradford Airport, the highest airport in the UK. Near Tinshill water-tower is Tinshill BT Tower (also known as Cookridge Tower), a prominent landmark.
Cookridge has one famous son: Nick Hodgson, drummer for the Kaiser Chiefs.
Nearby places include Adel, Holt Park, Tinshill, Horsforth, Bramhope, Moor Grange and Ireland Wood