What is "mabgate"

Mabgate is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and the name of one of the streets in it. "The area is bounded to the west by North Street; to the east by Macaulay Street; to the north by Mushroom Street and to the south by the New York Road." The area lies within the Burmantofts and Richmond Hill ward of the Leeds Metropolitan Council.

It started at the end of the 18th century as a series of woollen mills along the Lady Beck and by 1850 had become a dense area of industry and workers' houses. It contains four listed buildings: The Hope Foundry, Mabgate; ƒ Hope House, Mabgate; ƒ Smithfield Hotel, North Street; and Crispin House, New York Road.