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A water taxi in Leeds Dock
Map of Leeds Dock
Royal Armouries Museum

Leeds Dock (formerly New Dock and previously Clarence Dock) is a mixed development with retail, office and leisure presence by the River Aire in central Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has a large residential population in waterside apartments.

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History

The dock was constructed for boats using the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the Aire and Calder Navigation to tranship goods and commodities from Leeds city centre in 1843.[1] It was primarily used to bring coal from collieries around Rothwell and Wakefield to supply heavy industries in Hunslet and business and commerce in Leeds city centre.[2]

The western side of the dock once had a large crane on tracks along the side of the dock to load and unload goods from canal barges. In the 1990s the surrounding area was made up of Victorian industrial buildings most of which were derelict. Throughout the second half of the 20th century the area suffered steady industrial decline. The mills and many heavy engineering works began to close, move further out of town or scale down.[3]

Construction of the £42.5 million purpose-built Royal Armouries Museum marked the start of the area's redevelopment which opened in March 1996.[4] No further development was made until 2004 when a multi-storey car park opened followed by an Express hotel in August 2006.[5] The retail and leisure sector was launched on 11 October 2008 with fashion shows from celebrity fashion consultant and TV presenter Gok Wan.[6] However few retail chains were attracted to the area and the site failed to take off as a shopping centre.[7]

The site, which had been known as Clarence Dock, became New Dock in mid-2012 as part of a re-branding initiative.[8] The site was bought by Allied London, and rebranded as Leeds Dock in 2013.[9]

Facilities

Leeds Dock is the home of the Royal Armouries Museum, a major national museum.[10] The site attracts around 1.5 million visitors a year.[11] Although the site was originally intended to include a destination shopping centre, few shops opened and most of the shops that did open have since closed.[12] Leeds Dock's main shopping street, 'The Boulevard' radiates southbound from Armouries Square. Another focal point is 'The Anchorage' at the top of the dock. Clarence House is a 218-foot (66 m) tower containing 227 apartments and six retail units.[13]

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See also

References

  1. ^ "Approval secured for "unique" Leeds plans". Yorkshire News. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Leeds Dock - waterway destination unites past and present". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Three Developments Intricately Entwined with Leeds' History". Leeds List. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Royal Armouries Museum". Visit Leeds. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  5. ^ "130-room hotel opens at Clarence Dock". Leisure Opportunities. 21 August 2006. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Gok Wan hosts the Leeds Shopping Week at Clarence Dock". Contract Music. 11 October 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  7. ^ "Failed corner of Leeds desperate to make a splash". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  8. ^ "Clarence Dock renamed back to New Dock". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  9. ^ "Clarence Dock: new plans for Leeds Waterfront". Yorkshire Evening Post. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  10. ^ "Royal Armouries: Leeds". Royal Armouries. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  11. ^ "Annual Report 2013" (PDF). Royal Armouries. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  12. ^ "Clarence Dock: Ups and downs of Leeds cornerstone development". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  13. ^ "Clarence House". Skyscraper News. Retrieved 11 August 2018.

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