# Mabgate > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mabgate > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mabgate.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabgate > Source revision: 1291155722 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{coord|53.802|-1.531|display=title|region:GB_scale:10000}} thumb|right|Mabgate looking west, with Mabgate Mills on the right and a 1987 mural, designed by Janet de Wagt thumb|Street sign on the north end of the street '''Mabgate''' is an inner city area of [Leeds](/source/Leeds), [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire), [England](/source/England) and the name of one of its streets. In [Leeds City Council](/source/Leeds_City_Council)'s ''Mabgate Development Framework'' (2007), "the area is bounded to the west by North Street; to the east by Macaulay Street; to the north by Mushroom Street and to the south by the New York Road".Leeds City Council (April 2007), [https://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/Mabgate%20Development%20Framework.pdf Mabgate Development Framework], accessed 15 June 2021 Mabgate, the street, continues for a short distance on the south side of New York Road ([A64(M)](/source/A64(M))). The area is in the [Burmantofts and Richmond Hill ward](/source/Burmantofts_and_Richmond_Hill_(ward)) of Leeds City Council. The area to the west of Regent Street is within the city centre boundary. The name comes from 'Mab', meaning a [prostitute](/source/prostitution) (16th to 19th century) and 'gate' meaning a street (common in Yorkshire [street names](/source/Street_or_road_name)).A. H. Smith (1961) ''The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Part IV'' Cambridge University Press[Oxford English Dictionary](/source/Oxford_English_Dictionary)[http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/leeds-funny-place-names-from-mabgate-to-charlie-cake-park-1-4984303 ''Yorkshire Evening Post''] 2 October 2012 "Leeds funny place names" ==Development== Mabgate Hall, built on the site which later became the Black Horse public house, was built in 1673. The area developed at the end of the 18th century when woollen mills were built along the [Lady Beck](/source/Meanwood_Beck) or Mabgate Beck which runs parallel to Mabgate on the west. By 1850 the area had become densely packed with industrial premises and workers' houses. On the other side of the stream is the street called Mabgate Green. The area west of the Lady Beck was known as the [Leylands](/source/Leylands%2C_Leeds), a mixture of slum housing and factories in the 19th and early 20th century.Laura Vaughan & Alan Penn (2006) ''Urban Studies'', Vol. 43, No. 3, 653–671, Jewish Immigrant Settlement Patterns in Manchester and Leeds 1881 Maps from 1725 and 1771 show the region as open land, but by 1821 a named street (as is Skinner Lane) with buildings along much of its length had been built.Steven Burt & Kevin Grady (2002) ''The Illustrated History of Leeds'', 2nd edn (Breedon Books, Derby) {{ISBN|185983 316 0}} A Rebecca Chadwick, widow of William Chadwick, is noted as living there in 1790, implying that development started prior to this date.Leeds Parish registers 1790 The area today contains four listed buildings: two on Mabgate, the Hope Foundry, and its offices, Hope House, and two in the former Leylands, the Smithfield Hotel on North Street; and Crispin House on New York Road. The Hope Foundry produced ironwork for street furniture such as lamps, bollards, benches and mileposts, many of which are still around.Brian Godward (2004) The Changing Face of Leeds (Sutton Publishing, Stroud) {{ISBN|0-7509-3413-1}} The Black Horse public house was built on the site of Mabgate Hall as the Black Bull Inn. It was rebuilt in 1868 as the Black Horse.Leeds City Council, [http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200439_81689090 Black Horse, Mabgate], ''www.leodis.net'', accessed on 24 June 2024 The City of Mabgate Inn was converted to flats in 2006. It dates from 1857: the green area opposite was a [cholera burial ground](/source/Cholera_pit).[http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200341_1188296 www.leodis.net] City of Mabgate Inn. In 2020 it was named by [Condé Nast Traveller](/source/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Traveller) as one of the coolest places to live in the UK.{{cite magazine |last=Jordan |first=Rick |date=May 2020 |title=These are the coolest neighbourhoods in the UK |url=https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/cool-neighbourhoods-uk |magazine=Condé Nast Traveller |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=16 May 2020}} [Leeds City College](/source/Leeds_City_College) acquired a site on the east of Mabgate in 2020 which is being developed as a college campus.Leeds City College, [https://leedscitycollegemabgate.co.uk/ Leeds City College Mabgate: Our Plans] accessed on 24 June 2024 File:Mabgate Hope Buildings.jpg|The Hope Buildings File:Hope Foundry, Mabgate 2015.jpg|The Hope Foundry File:The Black Horse, Mabgate, Leeds - DSC07563.JPG|The Black Horse pub, Mabgate File:City of Mabgate - Mabgate - geograph.org.uk - 561467.jpg|City of Mabgate Inn File:Lady Beck Mabgate 2.jpg|Lady Beck ==References== {{reflist}} ==Location grid== {{NSEW|[Harehills](/source/Harehills)|[city centre](/source/Leeds_city_centre), [Quarry Hill](/source/Quarry_Hill%2C_Leeds)|[Lincoln Green](/source/Lincoln_Green)|[Sheepscar](/source/Sheepscar), [Little London](/source/Little_London%2C_Leeds)|||||}} Category:Places in Leeds --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mabgate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabgate) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabgate?action=history)). 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