page_title: Belle Isle, Leeds
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Belle Isle, Leeds / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A view over central Leeds, England, UK, from the top of Belle Isle Road, LS10.
context_page_description: Belle Isle is a large suburb 3 miles south of Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England. It is bounded to the north and east by the M621 motorway.
  The district lies in the LS10 Leeds postcode area. Belle Isle is part of the Middleton Park ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds Central parliamentary constituency.
context_section_description: In the late eighteenth century, Belle Isle was just a small hamlet for workers at a colliery opposite Middleton Woods, near the current site of Middleton colliery railway.
  Belle Isle now consists largely of housing estates built on farming land by the local authority housing department during the clearance of slum dwellings and the expansion of Leeds in the early twentieth-century; some of these homes are now in private ownership.
  The estate is divided north to south by Belle Isle Road with the wide expanse of Belle Isle Circus lying at the centre of the estate.
  The majority of the homes in Belle Isle are red brick semi-detached houses although this stock has been added to over the years. The majority still belong to Leeds City Council and are managed locally by Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (TMO). BITMO is a not for profit housing company that is run by a tenant board.
  Some of the council estates of Belle Isle are listed below:
  Petersfield Avenue
  Windmill Road
  The Clearings
  Manor Farms (often debated as to whether this lies in Middleton)
  Newhall Road
  The Brooms
  The Aberfields
  The Lanshaws
  The Nesfields
caption: A view of central Leeds from Belle Isle Road
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