Cross Green, Leeds
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Cross Green is a mainly industrial area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is around {{convert|1|mi|km}} on a hill to the south east of Leeds city centre, with the A63 road (Pontefract Lane) running through the middle and dividing it into a residential estate with playing fields and housing to the north, and a large industrial estate to the south. The area lies in the LS9 Leeds postcode area between Osmondthorpe, Richmond Hill and Hunslet.
Leeds RERF
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An area north of Pontefract Lane formerly housed the main Leeds wholesale markets, one for meat, one for fish, fruit and vegetables.{{cite web |url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20061031_162232 |title=Pontefract Lane, Wholesale Fish, Fruit and Vegetable Market, Opening Ceremony |author= |website=www.leodis.net |access-date=5 August 2017 }} This was redeveloped into a facility for converting household waste into energy which opened in April 2016, and handles all the black bag bin waste from Leeds.{{cite web |url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/new-state-of-the-art-incinerator-to-save-leeds-7m-every-year-1-7860061 |title=New state-of-the-art incinerator to save Leeds £7m every year |author= |date=18 April 2016 |website=Yorkshire Evening Post |access-date=5 August 2016 }} This is called the Leeds Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility (RERF), and is operated by Veolia. The main building itself is distinctive in appearance, because of its arched timber beam construction and a Green wall on the South side, and won the Project of the Year award at the Structural Timber Awards 2015.{{cite web |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/commercial-property/turning-yorkshire-waste-into-energy-as-iconic-building-dominates-leeds-skyline-1-7619941 |title=Turning Yorkshire waste into energy as 'iconic' building dominates Leeds skyline|author= |date=15 December 2015 |website=Yorkshire Post |access-date=5 August 2017 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.structuraltimberawards.co.uk/winners-and-finalists/winners |title=2015 Winners |author= |website=Structural Timber Awards |access-date=5 August 2015 }}
Residential Area
This consists of 450 homes, largely traditional terraced and back-to-back houses on Cross Green Lane and streets north of it.{{cite web |url=http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/CD13-2%20Sustainable%20Communities%20Investment%20Programme%20-%20Cross%20Green%20and%20Nevilles%20(Exec%20Board%20Report%20Feb%202013).pdf |title= Sustainable Communities Investment Programme - Cross Green and Nevilles |last=Smith |first=Christa|date=15 February 2013 |website=www.leeds.gov.uk |publisher=Leeds City Council |access-date=19 July 2017 }} It is home to Leeds GATE (Gypsy And Traveller Exchange).{{cite web |url=http://leedsgate.co.uk/ |title=Leeds GATE Working to improve the quality of life for Gypsies and Travellers |author= |website=leedsgate.co.uk |access-date=19 July 2017 }} A school, Cross Green Comprehensive School, became Copperfields College, but has now been demolished.
The Anglican Church of St Hilda and its vicarage are both Grade II Listed Buildings.{{cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101375246-church-of-st-hilda-burmantofts-and-richmond-hill-ward#.WW-NbxXyu70 |title=Church of St Hilda |author= |website=www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk |access-date=19 July 2017 }} It is a red brick church by J. T. Micklethwaite, dating from 1881.
File:Knowsthorpe Gate Roundabout sign 20 July 2017.jpg|Road from the industrial estate to the A63 roundabout
File:Cross Green Way and Vale 20 July 2017.jpg|Road on Cross Green Industrial Estate
File:St Hildas Place, Cross Green 5 Nov 2016.jpg|Terraced housing
File:Leeds GATE, Cross Green Lane 14 Sep 2013.jpg|Leeds GATE
File:St Hilda Cross Green 01 5 Nov 2016.jpg|St Hilda exterior
File:St Hilda Cross Green interior 2013.jpg|St Hilda interior
Notable people
It was the birthplace in 1942 of the poet Barry Tebb.{{cite book |last=Tebb |first=Barry |date=2005 |title=The Fiddler and His Bow: The Autobiography of a Poet |publisher=Sixties Press |isbn=0952999412 }}
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