What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: The West Bar. The bar stone marking the western boundary of the built-up area of the medieval town of Leeds stood here. Scarcely a single building lay in the old manorial park to the west of this point before 1758 Recorded plaque organisation: Leeds Civic Trust.
West Bar marked the western boundary of medieval Leeds, indicating the extent of urban development and serving as a reference for the expansion of the town beyond its original boundaries after 1758.
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