Buslingthorpe, Leeds

Buslingthorpe is an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

[1] A writer in Notes and Queries in 1932 noted that Buslingthorpe (shared with the Lincolnshire Buslingthorpe and Buckfastleigh, Devon) contains 13 different letters, exactly half the alphabet, none repeated and with no hyphenation.

In 2007 David Crystal noted that Bricklehampton surpasses this with 14 unique letters.

[5] Between 1870 and 1872, it was a chapelry in the parish of Leeds, with a population of 4,548 living in 998 houses.

[6] The Church of St Michael was built in 1852–1854 on Buslingthorpe Lane and demolished in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

Norma Hutchinson Park