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Latitude: 53.8152 / 53°48'54"N
Longitude: -1.5756 / 1°34'32"W
OS Eastings: 428037
OS Northings: 435517
OS Grid: SE280355
Mapcode National: GBR BBD.44
Mapcode Global: WHC9C.RCWK
Plus Code: 9C5WRC8F+3P
Entry Name: The Old Bear Pit
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255678
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465760
Also known as: Headingley Bear Pit
Leeds Victorian Bear Pit
ID on this website: 101255678
Location: Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Headingley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Headingley St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Bear pit
LEEDS
SE2835NW CARDIGAN ROAD, Headingley
714-1/64/725 (East side)
05/08/76 The Old Bear Pit
II
Bear pit in the Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens. Mid
C19, restored mid C20. Rock-faced rusticated masonry. 2
circular castellated turrets with round-arched entrance in
left and right returns, linked by a wall with Venetian-type
gateway, voussoirs to central round arch. On the E side the
circular bear pit is brick-lined and is linked to the turret
wall by 2 tunnels; on the W side a paved area and low
retaining wall, curved at ends.
The Gardens were opened in 1840, the designers were William
Billington, a Wakefield engineer, and Edward Davies, a
landscape gardener. The bears were viewed from the top of the
turrets. After several changes of ownership the Gardens were
divided into building plots and sold off from 1869. The
structure was measured and recorded in 1987.
(Thoresby Society Miscellany: Trowell, F: Speculative Housing
Development in the Suburb of Headingley: 54; Douglas, J
(Victorian Society) pers. comm.; West Yorkshire Archaeology
Unit: Measured drawing (plan, elevation, section), ref.
WYAS.87.ACS: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SE2803735517
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