"Claremont", Clarendon Road, Leeds
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"Claremont", Clarendon Road, Leeds
Image: © Stanley Walker Taken: 6 Jul 2009
Built in 1772 for John Elam a Quaker merchant until 1840 when purchased by John Atkinson who then began developing the grounds until in 1856 when Dr John Deakin Heaton physician and co-founder of the Yorkshire College bought the house and had a new entrance and bay windows added,at some point later it was used as a nursing home for a number of years but from 1968 the house has belonged to The Yorkshire Archaeological Society and Thoresby Society.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.802204
Longitude
-1.55752