page_title: Thorpe Edge
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Thorpe Edge / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Block of flats, Thorp Garth
context_page_description: Thorpe Edge is a housing estate in Idle, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
context_section_description: The estate was mostly constructed in the 1950s.  It was constructed mostly of low-rise housing but with two high-rise developments; the York Place flats and the Fairhaven Green flats.  All of the high-rise flats are eight-storeys in height and still standing, the larger York House has shops on the ground floor.  Some mid-rise flats were also constructed along the Northern edge of the estate.  These were demolished in the 2010s.  Some of the older low-rise houses were demolished in the 2000s.
caption: Medium rise flats to the northern side of the estate, since demolished
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