The Meanwood Beck provided water and power for corn, flax and paper mills, dye works and tanneries.

Public transport followed from 1850 and electric trams in 1890, meaning that it was practical for people to travel to work from greater distances, encouraging both industrial buildings and housing.

Hustler's Row remains as a group of 1850 stone cottages named after John Husler, a quarry owner.

[6] Sugarwell Court on Meanwood Road, is the former Cliff Tannery, an 1866 Grade II listed building converted into a university hall of residence.

20th century council housing mixed with open space forms the opposite side of the valley leading up to Scott Hall.

There is a shopping centre opposite a Waitrose Food & Home store on Green Road, near the site of a tannery which is believed to date from 1700.

In 1919 it was bought by the city council to form the nucleus of Meanwood Park Hospital which accommodated men, women and children with learning disabilities.

It served the city of Leeds and other areas of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and at its maximum extent in the 1960s had 841 beds.

Early photographs show the Model Farm, which occupied the hillside, with fields in which rhubarb was grown.

[16] In 1919, 80 acres of land to the south of Meanwood, close to Woodhouse Ridge, was sold by the Model Farm to Leeds Corporation.

The opening credits to police drama Parkin's Patch began with a scene shot at Farm Hill.

[17] The area was redeveloped in 1990 as a series of two- and three-bedroom semi-detached houses and bungalows, around half of which are privately owned.

In 2000, a further estate of residential houses was built on the opposite side of Meanwood Road, centred around Boothroyd Drive.

Although the Farm Hills and Boothroyd Drive are contiguous, Meanwood Road divides the older and new estates and represents a political and postal boundary.

[6] Its clock was designed by Edmund Beckett and made by Edward John Dent, who was responsible for Big Ben.

It is believed that the artist John Atkinson Grimshaw based some of his fairy paintings in Meanwood Park.

It is focused on retaining the village atmosphere and holds events such as an annual funday [28] and restoration work on projects such as the war memorial.

They also provide many community based projects running from Meanwood Community Center including a tea-time club, yoga group and have recently started a project called Restore Community Healing Garden see there website www.ymav.co.uk for more information Numerous sporting activities exist in Meanwood, including the Meanwood Valley Trail Race (a cross country race that has been going since 1996), amateur cricket and rugby league.