Briggate
Briggate is a pedestrianised principal shopping street in Leeds city centre, England. Historically it was the main street, leading north from Leeds Bridge, and housed markets, merchant's houses and other business premises.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Pedestrian zone
- Description: street in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Briggate, Leeds”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leeds City Varieties and Trinity Leeds.
Leeds City Varieties
Theater building
Photo: Mtaylor848, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Leeds City Varieties is a Grade II* listed music hall in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Leeds City Varieties is situated 500 feet north of Briggate.
Trinity Leeds
Shopping center
Photo: Pinnacle Leeds, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trinity Leeds is a shopping and leisure centre in the city centre of Leeds, England, named after the adjacent 18th-century Holy Trinity Church. Developed by Land Securities and designed by Chapman Taylor, it opened on 21 March 2013, with over 130,000 recorded visitors on opening day. Trinity Leeds is situated 500 feet southwest of Briggate.
Leeds Library
Library
Photo: Mdbeckwith, CC BY 3.0.
The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the UK. It was founded in 1768, following an advertisement placed in the Leeds Intelligencer earlier that year. Leeds Library is situated 470 feet west of Briggate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leeds and Arena Quarter.
Leeds
Photo: Lad 2011, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leeds is the largest city in the county of West Yorkshire and the third largest city in Britain, though its urban area size falls behind that of Manchester.
Arena Quarter
Quarter
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Arena Quarter is a mixed city centre development with residential, retail and office developments in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is located in Leeds city centre and the area is best known for housing Leeds Arena.
Central Leeds
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Leeds city centre is the central business district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is roughly bounded by the Inner Ring Road to the north and the River Aire to the south and can be divided into several quarters.
Briggate
- Category: street
- Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.79762° or 53° 47′ 51″ northLongitude
-1.54229° or 1° 32′ 32″ westOpen location code
9C5WQFX5+23OpenStreetMap ID
way 204539447OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrianWikidata ID
Q10435562
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