Why was (still is?) the Mint area of Holbeck so called?
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Re: Why was (still is?) the Mint area of Holbeck so called?
the area on the other side of Elland Road was called Sodom!!
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Re: Why was (still is?) the Mint area of Holbeck so called?
I remember when reading thoresbys diary hoggs field is mentioned. Cant remember exact date but the name has been around certainly since around 1700
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Re: Why was (still is?) the Mint area of Holbeck so called?
"warringtonrhino"]the area on the other side of Elland Road was called Sodom!!
Don't wish to be flippant warringtonrhino but i have used that phrase on more than a few occasions whilst trudging up Wesley Street after the United have been walloped at home again.
Don't wish to be flippant warringtonrhino but i have used that phrase on more than a few occasions whilst trudging up Wesley Street after the United have been walloped at home again.
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Re: Why was (still is?) the Mint area of Holbeck so called?
warringtonrhino wrote:the area on the other side of Elland Road was called Sodom!!
Thanks for that warringtonrhino

Its location is shown in this section of an 1850 map that I have copied from the Old Maps UK website. I wonder if there was a Gomorrah

PS. Sorry for the large amount of space with the map. I've still not quite got the hang of copying and then saving maps.
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