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unusual facts about Ainsty, Wetherby



A58

A58 road, a road connecting Prescot and Wetherby in England

A661 road

The A661 begins in West Yorkshire at the South Wetherby roundabout (adjacent to the Ramada Jarvis Hotel) where it intersects with the A58 (St Helens to Wetherby via Leeds, Bradford and Halifax) and slip roads for the A1.

Ainsty, Wetherby

In the past this parade has had a launderette, tool hire shop, newsagent (Ainsty News), Nisa, Happy Shopper and independent convenience shop (Harves and Green Grocers).

Bilton-in-Ainsty

The novelist, poet and children's writer Annie Keary (1825-1879) was born in Bilton, the daughter of the rector, William Keary.

Charles Wellington Furse

Such are the Diana of the Uplands, the Lord Roberts and The Return from the Ride at the Tate Gallery; the four children in the Cubbing with the York and Ainsty, The Lilac Gown, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Fishing and the portraits of Lord Charles Beresford and William Johnson Cory.

Charlie Hall Chase

It is run at Wetherby over a distance of about 3 miles and 1 furlong (5,029 metres), and during its running there are 18 fences to be jumped.

Cross Gates railway station

Services on this line ran to the following railway stations, Pendas Way, Scholes, Thorner, Bardsey, Collingham Bridge and Wetherby.

History of Seacroft

From here buses run out through the estate as well as to the city centre, Wetherby and Harrogate.

Leeds City Council election, 1999

One third of the council was up for election, as well as a vacancy each in Horsforth, Moortown and Wetherby.

Pendas Fields

Penda's Way railway station on the Cross Gates to Wetherby Line was in the area, but closed in 1964 before the Pendas Fields estate was built in the 1980s.

Rossington Main Novices' Hurdle

It then continued at Wetherby until it was transferred to its present home, Haydock Park, in 2005.

Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase

It is run at Wetherby over a distance of about 3 miles and 1 furlong (5,029 metres), and during its running there are eighteen fences to be jumped.

Tanglewood Guitars

Tanglewood Guitars was founded in London in 1988 and later moved to Biggin Hill, Kent and opened additional warehouse space Wetherby in Yorkshire.

West Yorkshire Hurdle

It is run at Wetherby, West Yorkshire, over a distance of about 3 miles and 1 furlong (5,029 metres), and during its running there are thirteen hurdles to be jumped.


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