Thorpe Edge is a housing estate in Idle, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

Thorpe Edge
York House
Thorpe Edge Location within West Yorkshire
Metropolitan borough	City of Bradford
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRADFORD
Postcode district	BD10
Dialling code	01274
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53.84°N 1.73°W / 53.84; -1.73

Geography and administration

Thorpe Edge is situated off Harrogate Road in the north-east of the City of Bradford and borders Idle and Five Lane Ends, Greengates and Eccleshill.

History

The estate was mostly constructed in the 1950s. It was constructed mostly of low-rise housing but with two high-rise developments; the York Place flats and the Fairhaven Green flats. All of the high-rise flats are eight-storeys in height and still standing,[1] the larger York House has shops on the ground floor. Some mid-rise flats were also constructed along the Northern edge of the estate. These were demolished in the 2010s. Some of the older low-rise houses were demolished in the 2000s.

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  Fairhaven flats
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  Singh's convenience store, York House
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  Newer 1990s built houses which replaced older low-rise housing
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  St John the Divine Church

Amenities

The estate has a church; St John the Divine on Idlethorp Way, a school; Parkland Primary School and shops on the ground floor of York House. The estate is surrounded by areas with a greater number of amenities and there is a large Sainsbury's supermarket nearby at Greengates.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thorpe Edge.

• Telegraph and Argus photograph collection