What is Hyde Park, Leeds?
{{Infobox UK place |country = England |map_type = West Yorkshire |official_name = Hyde Park |metropolitan_borough= [[City of Leeds]] |metropolitan_county= [[West Yorkshire]] |region = Yorkshire and the Humber |constituency_westminster= [[Leeds Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Leeds Central]] |post_town= LEEDS |postcode_district= LS6 |postcode_area= LS |dial_code= 0113 |os_grid_reference= SE282350 |static_image_name = Corner shop and terraced houses on Royal Park Road (geograph 6255208).jpg |static_image_caption = A typical house and local shop near Royal Park Road }} '''Hyde Park''' is a centre city area for homes of north-west [[Leeds]], [[West Yorkshire]], England, placed between the [[University of Leeds]] and [[Headingley]]. It sits in the [[Headingley and Hyde Park (ward)|Headingley and Hyde Park]] voting area of [[Leeds City Council]], though where the border between Headingley and Hyde Park isn't clear; Victoria Road is usually thought to be its northern limit. Unlike the nearby areas of [[Burley, Leeds|Burley]], Headingley and [[Woodhouse, Leeds|Woodhouse]], Hyde Park was not a village in the past so its borders are unknown. The area is in the centre of the city's [[student]] community, being next to Headingley, another big student community. There are also many families, single people and a sizable [[South Asian]] community. Before the creation of red brick [[Terraced houses in the United Kingdom|terraced housing]] in the end of the Victorian era, the area was where the [[Leeds Royal Park]] enjoyment area, quarries, and fields in the estate of the [[Earl of Cardigan]].<ref name=trowell>{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Trowell |first=Frank |date=May 1982a |title=Nineteenth-Century Speculative Housing in Leeds |publisher=[[University of York]] |volume=1 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9806/1/331623_vol1.pdf}}</ref> The Hyde Park name would later include the new places