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The area has a history of student inhabitation, with Leeds Metropolitan University having a campus at Beckett Park in Headingley.

The conversion of Leeds Polytechnic into a University and its subsequent growth has brought about an increased student population in Headingley in the last ten years.

As Headingley is close to both the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University campuses, it has become a very popular student area.

For many decades the Headingley Stadium remained largely unchanged, however since 2000 the cricket ground has been nearly entirely rebuilt in order to retain test ground status.

At a local government level, the ward of Headingley has two Liberal Democrat councillors, Martin Hamilton ( 2010 – 2014 ) and Jamie Matthews ( 2008 – 2012 ), and one Labour councillor, Neil Walshaw ( 2011-2015 ).

The Lounge Cinema in the centre of Headingley has since closed and is being redeveloped as office and living accommodation, leaving only Cottage Road in Far Headingley.

Headingley also has a typical example of a 1960s Arndale Centre.

He has the distinction of once scoring 7 runs from a single delivery in Test cricket, off Vanburn Holder in the Fourth England v West Indies Test at Headingley in 1976.

Headingley has a tradition of rugby which started back in 1877, after several youngsters became interested in rugby after watching Leeds St. John's, later to become the Leeds Rhinos rugby league team.

The largest hall is Kirkstall Brewery on Broad Lane which has places for over 1, 000 students and is located about from the Headingley campus.

Holt Park has bus services operated by First Leeds ( formerly Yorkshire Rider ), particularly Route 1 " Brown Line " which runs from the shopping centre, through Weetwood, Headingley, Leeds University, Leeds city centre and terminates in the South Leeds area of Beeston.

Since 11 January 2006, the stadium has officially been known as the Headingley Carnegie Stadium as a result of sponsorship from Leeds Metropolitan University, whose sports faculty is known as the Carnegie School of Sport Exercise and Physical Education .< ref >

As of January 2011, that Headingley match remains Kabir's solitary Test appearance, although he has made a number of further appearances at ODI level.

Dean started 2010 in great fashion scoring the final and clinching try away at Headingley in Castlefords opening game against Leeds Rhinos Dean unfortunately picked up an injury and missed 2 months of the season but has since came back and played in an unfamiliar role of linking up with Rangi Chase He has blossomed in the position and remains a big favourite with the tigers fans.

The Old Trafford Test was less of a turnaround and more of a team effort than the previous two Tests, but Botham again was England's hero hitting yet another century in what Lillee claimed to be a better innings than his Headingley heroics.

After Harvey led the team to victory at Lord's, Benaud had an unhappy return in the Third at Headingley scoring two runs in two innings and taking match figures of 2 / 108 as Australia lost within three days.

At Headingley Keith Fletcher made his Test debut and dropped two catches in the slips off Snow ( 3 / 98 ), one to his right and one to his left.

Snow took only two wickets at Headingley as " Deadly " Derek Underwood spun England to an Ashes retaining victory with 10 / 82, but he was the second highest scorer in the England first innings, adding 104 with Ray Illingworth ( 57 ) before he was stumped for 48 and given a standing ovation by the Yorkshire crowd.

In the Fourth Test at Headingley, Sobers scored 114 and 59 as his team won by two wickets.

Until 2005 Headingley had two cinemas, ' The Lounge ' and ' The Cottage Road Cinema ' ( usually referred to as ' Cottage Road ').

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe committed two of his 20 attacks in Headingley.

Fans got two matches for the price of one on Saturday 13 August 2005 when Headingley hosted back-to-back union and league games.

Having passed the England captaincy to Ian Botham in 1980 ( losing his Test place in the process ), Brearley returned as captain following Botham's resignation for the famous third Test against Australia at Headingley in 1981, famously going on to win the match and two of the remaining three matches of the series to win the Ashes 3-1.

The boundary between the two wards is also the boundary between Leeds Central constituency, which contains Hyde Park & Woodhouse, and Leeds North West constituency, which contains Headingley.

After failing to pass 20 in the first two Tests, he scored 78 in the first innings of the Third Test at Headingley, in which Australia took a 121-run first innings lead and went on to win by seven wickets to take a 1 – 0 series lead.

The first two Tests were rain-soaked draws and they went to Headingley for the Third Test with Barrington having done little – his last 10 innings in England had produced 200 runs.

Broad opened in the next Test match against the West Indies at Headingley, Yorkshire beginning on 12 July 1984, scoring 32 and two.

In 2007 after finishing runners up in the league to big spending Crusaders, Rovers won promotion back to National League One ( The Second level on the pyramid ) from National League Two after a two year absence with a 24 – 6 win over Oldham at Headingley.

He was retained for the Third Test at Headingley, but took only two wickets as Australia recorded a comfortable win.

Dilley began the 1981 Ashes series strongly, taking 12 wickets in the first two Tests, and was thus retained for the third Test at Headingley.

Despite his part in the win at Headingley, Dilley did not play in the fourth Test, nor in the two that followed, being replaced variously by John Emburey, Paul Allott and Mike Hendrick.

His most notable act of the series were two missed stumpings as Australia successfully chased down, a Test record, 404 in the fourth Test at Headingley.

Against Pakistan on 16 June at Headingley he scored 20 from 59 balls and took two catches as England won by a narrower margin of 14 runs.

In the first three Tests, he could only manage 84 runs at 16. 80, and after single figure scores in the Third Test at Headingley, trapped leg before wicket twice by the off spin Jim Laker on a very dry surface as Australia suffered their first innings defeat in 18 years, was dropped for the final two Tests.

She compiled her first test century against Australia at Headingley in 2001 and scored 177 and 131 in the first two tests against South Africa in 2003.

In the Headingley Arndale Centre there is a Sainsbury's ( formerly a Somerfield ), a Wilkinson and several other chain shops as well as a small multi-storey car park.

On the opening day of the Fourth Test at Headingley ( Leeds ), England were out for 200, but Australia slumped to 3 / 39, losing the third wicket from the last ball of the day.

He took 4 / 84 and 0 / 117 in the Third Test at Trent Bridge and 3 / 143 in the Fourth at Headingley, but the West Indies won them both to go 3-0 up in the series and the formidable Brian Close was made captain for the final Test.

In the Third Test at Headingley there was a problem when Illingworth asked Snow to " give me everything you've got " when the West Indians were 240 / 7 needing 303 to win, but Snow found the pitch lifeless, changed to medium-paced seamers, failed to take a wicket and Illingworth was not best pleased.

Snow took 19 wickets ( 35. 84 ) with 4 / 120 at Edgbaston, 4 / 82 at Headingley and 4 / 81 at The Oval.

In the First Test at Trent Bridge Snow took 3 / 23 as New Zealand were shot out for 97 in the first innings and lost by 38 runs, but went for 2 / 104 in the second innings and 3 / 109 at Lords before bouncing back with 2 / 52 and 3 / 34 in the innings victory at Headingley.

He took 0 / 24 off 12 overs against India at Lords in England's record 202-run victory, 4 / 11 against East Africa at Edgbaston, his best bowling in a One Day International, and 2 / 32 off 12 overs against Australia as England lost the semi-final at Headingley.

He took 3 / 22 at Headingley and finished the series with 11 wickets ( 32. 27 ), more than any other England player.

Famously in the decisive Third Test at Headingley he removed the off-spinner David Allen after he had taken three wickets to reduce Australia to 187 / 7, still 81 runs behind England.

In the First Test at Headingley Dexter selected four fast bowlers and no spinners for the team, advised Gower to put Australia in to bat, only to see them made 601 / 7 and win by 210 runs.

In 1920 / 21, Rovers finished top of the Rugby League but lost 14-16 to Hull in the play-off final at Headingley.

In 1983 / 84 Rovers were crowned champions of the 1st Division and went on to win the Divisional Premiership beating Castleford 18-10 in the final at Headingley ; becoming the first team to win the Championship / Premiership double.