Woodrow Hill
Ivy House with Bondfield Terrace.
Ivy House and Bondfield Terrace houses (now called Leeds Road). Behind
Bondfield Terrace are the houses of the Hollings Estate. This photo from
1985 shows a good view of Ivy House with the summer house on the left
and fields in front of Ivy House. By 1985 there were no rhubarb sheds
left. Woodrow Hill is named Sand Hole Hill on the 1908 map. The field
in front of Ivy House was often named White Cross Field, because until
the end of the 19th century there was a white stone cross there, which
had been erected in memory of those who had died in the Plague epidemics
of the early 1600s. The Plague was in Methley 1605-1609, 37 people dying
in the last three months of 1605. Plague epidemics came again 1629-1632.
The stone which was here was not the one called 'the Plague stone', which
is in Pinfold Lane School at present. The houses of Bondfield Terrace
were built and owned for many years by the Hollings family of Woodrow.
The Hollings Estate, built by Rothwell Council in 1948, was also named
after the same family.
Hollings Estate
The Hollings Estate entrance from Woodrow Hill. Photo taken in the mid
-1980s. In the County of York West Riding Special Review Order 1937, the
Methley Urban District, comprising Methley and Mickletown, became part
of Rothwell Urban District Council. Rothwell Council built the Hollings
Estate of 64 houses in 1948. The Estate was named in commemoration of
the Hollings family, who lived for several centuries in Woodrow and at
one time owned most of the Woodrow area.
Bondfield Terrace (later known as Leeds Road),
Woodrow
Leeds Road, Woodrow, 1980s, looking down the hill and showing the row
of houses formerly known as Bondfield Terrace, now known as Leeds Road.
A noble row of houses, built by the Hollings family, mid to late 19th
century on a field or land owned by them and in front of Bond House -
their home since the 1850s, where the last generation of the family lived
until their decease.
