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==Name==
The name ''Chapel Allerton'' is first attested in the [[Domesday Book]] simply as ''Alreton'' and similarly spelled variants. It probably comes from [[Old English]] ''alor'' '[[alder]]' (in its [[genitive]] [[plural]] form ''alra'') and ''tūn'' 'estate, farm', thus meaning 'Alder farm'.<ref name=
The ''Chapel'' part of the name refers to a chapel associated with [[Kirkstall Abbey]]. This building was demolished in the eighteenth century; the site remains between Harrogate Road and Church Lane.<ref name=LeedsPlan/> Already in 1240 a charter referred to land "which lies between the road which goes to the Chapel of Allerton and the bounds of Stainbeck",<ref name=HolyR>[http://www.movinghere.org.uk/deliveryfiles/wyas/WYL5046_7/0/3.pdf Holy Rosary Church Leeds] Silver Jubilee 1937–1962</ref> but the name ''Chapel Alreton'' is first attested in the fourteenth century, coined to distinguish the place from the many other places called ''Allerton'', such as the nearby [[Allerton Gledhow]] and [[Moor Allerton]].<ref name=
The name ''Chapel Allerton'' was reduced to ''Chapeltown'' (first attested in 1427), and from this time both names co-existed and were essentially interchangeable.<ref name=Faulkner>R. Faulkner (1995) ''From Village to Suburb – A History of Chapel Allerton'' (Chapel Allerton Residents Association)</ref><ref name=White>{{cite book |last=White |first=William|date=1853 |title=Directory and Gazetteer of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, and the whole of the clothing districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire |url= |location=Sheffield |publisher=William White |page=299}}</ref> [[Ralph Thoresby]], writing in 1715, records ''Chapel-Town'' as a common name for the township of Chapel Allerton, describing it as "well situated in pure Air, upon a pleasant Ascent, which affords a Prospect of the Country ten or twelve miles". The open space to its east and north of ''Potter-Newton'' was "a delicate Green commonly call'd ''Chapel-Town Moor''".<ref name=Thoresby>Ralph Thoresby (1715) ''Ducatus Leodiensis: or, the topography of the ancient and populous town and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent in the West Riding of York'', pages 113, 124. A. H. Smith, ''The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire'', English Place-Names Society, 30–37, 8 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961–63), iv, 138.</ref>
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