page_title: Tong, West Yorkshire
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Tong, West Yorkshire / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: Tong Village - The Greyhound Inn. A famous hostelry around these parts. Tong is a typical english village, church, pub and cricket ground which is to the right behind the blue car
context_page_description: Tong or Tong Village is a village in the City of Bradford metropolitan district, West Yorkshire, England. It is a historic village, and is sometimes thought to be a smaller version of the larger area of Tong, which is a local election ward.
context_section_description: Tong Village forms part of Tong Conservation Area, which was originally designated in 1973. The designation covers virtually the entire village which extends in a linear fashion along Tong Lane, the main thoroughfare.
  Tong village predates the Norman Conquest and was the seat of Tong Manor between the thirteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.  The manor remained in the hands of the Tempest family, who resisted the expansion and industrialisation of the village, for some four hundred years before selling the Hall and estate in 1941, to  E. W. Towler director of Redpath Dorman and Long.  Unusually, a great number of the buildings in the conservation area were built in the 18th century including Tong Hall (1702) and the adjacent courtyard (1711), St James’s Church (1727), the school (1736) and several newly built and rebuilt farmhouses and estate cottages. These buildings used a mixture of red brick and local gritstone, making the conservation area unique in Bradford in terms of materials.
  Tong Hall, a Queen Anne manor house built in the late 17th century, replaced an older building—a capital messuage (manor house) is recorded in 1343 as part of the holdings of the Tong family, but was destroyed by fire around 1700. In 1702 Sir George Tempest built the present Tong Hall to designs by Theophilus Shelton. Further alterations took place in 1773 under the direction of architect John Platt. The estate and hall remained with the Tempest family until 1941, when the hall was subsequently used for a number of functions such as a Co-operative Youth Centre, a training college, a hall of residence, a museum, and its current use as a business centre with suites of offices. This small privately owned country estate complex contains high-tech businesses, including internet dating companies.
  St James Church is the village's listed parish church (see the history section below), located between the Greyhound pub and the Marriott hotel.  The 12th-century chapel situated on Tong Lane formed the southern boundary of Tong Park. Other structures included a water corn mill, documented in 1218/19.  Archaeological investigations in 1979 found the remains of a probable earlier chapel, dating to the 11th century, standing within the foundations of the 12th century chapel.  A grave marker found during these works implies that there was a burial ground here prior to the 12th-century, suggesting that Tong was possibly a pre-Conquest settlement.
  A former schoolroom opposite the parish church is used as a village gathering place, and a learning centre. The village post office operated from these premises, but following recent post office closures, it is no longer operational.
  A further landmark of Tong village is Tong Garden Centre, which is situated at the south-western end of Tong Lane about 0.5 miles (1 km) from its junction with the B6135.
  On Tong Lane there is a holiday camping site, a motorcycle hill climb, and the Innovation Motorsports rally (and four by four) testing centre drive, located opposite the Holiday Inn Leeds/Bradford, a testing facility used by professional rally teams to ensure their up-and-coming drivers are up to scratch, before the major European rallies.
  Further down the road (which was once a short cut for Leeds-bound traffic until traffic-calming measures were introduced), is the Holiday Inn Leeds/Bradford, set within wheat fields.
  Past the village's new residential housing are preserved working farms, one of which supplies local ice-cream.
  The Greyhound public house, a traditional pub and restaurant, is at the Leeds end of the village. Until recently, there was a dovecote on the gable end of the pub. Adjacent to the Greyhound is a small village cricket ground, home to Leeds And West Riding League Tong CC, who play their home games at one of Yorkshire's oldest cricket grounds.
caption: The Greyhound Inn
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