Roundhay is one of the better known of Leeds’s suburbs. It is in the east of the city, adjacent to Alwoodley, Chapel Allerton, Gledhow and Oakwood; and is home to Roundhay Park, a grand, Victorian park which has the distinction of being the largest inner-city park in Europe. The area’s housing ranges from poor, nineteenth-century stock in the south to some of the most sought after in Leeds to the north.
Roundhay holds the honour of being the location of the world’s oldest surviving film, Roundhay Garden Scene, which is thought to have been shot in 1888.
Roundhay Park was the first place an aircraft landed in Leeds after a flight from Amsterdam
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