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Buslingthorpe, Leeds

Buslingthorpe is an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Buslingthorpe, Leeds
Buslingthorpe, Leeds · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Buslingthorpe is an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is about one mile north of the city centre and currently falls within the Little London and Woodhouse ward of the City of Leeds Council. Much of the housing in the area was demolished by slum clearance in the 1950s.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Buslingthorpe, Leeds

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Leeds

    The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science.

    1.1 km · university in Leeds, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Leeds Beckett University

    Leeds Beckett University, formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the city centre and Headingley.

    1.3 km · university in Leeds, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Leeds Cathedral

    Leeds Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Anne, also known as Saint Anne's Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds, and is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds. It is in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

    1.5 km · catholic cathedral in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Headingley Stadium

    Headingley Stadium is a stadium complex in Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Linked by a two-sided stand housing common facilities, it comprises two separate grounds: Headingley Cricket Ground and Headingley Rugby Stadium.

    2.9 km · sports ground in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds

    The Diocese of Leeds is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church centred on Leeds Cathedral in the city of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It was founded on 20 December 1878, with the splitting of the Diocese of Beverley, which had covered all of Yorkshire.

    3.4 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Headingley Cricket Ground

    Headingley Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in the Headingley Stadium complex in Headingley, Leeds, England. It adjoins the Headingley Rugby Stadium through a shared main stand, although the main entrance to the cricket ground is at the opposite Kirkstall Lane end.

    2.9 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Royal Armouries Leeds

    The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a national museum that holds the National Collection of Arms and Armour. It is part of the Royal Armouries family of museums, with other sites at the Royal Armouries' traditional home in the Tower of London, and the National Collection of Artillery at Fort Nelson, Hampshire.

    2.4 km · museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Leeds Art Gallery

    Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance". Its collection also includes 19th-century and earlier art works.

    1.6 km · municipal art gallery in England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Aire and Calder Navigation

    The Aire and Calder Navigation is the canalised section of the Rivers Aire and Calder in West Yorkshire, England. The first improvements to the rivers above Knottingley were completed in 1704 when the Aire was made navigable to Leeds and the Calder to Wakefield, by the construction of 16 locks.

    3.7 km · canal in Leeds, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    First Direct Bank Arena

    The Leeds Arena is an entertainment-focused indoor arena located in the Arena Quarter of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is the first in the United Kingdom to have a fan-shaped orientation.

    1.2 km · entertainment focused arena in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Buslingthorpe, Leeds

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 10 km · Manchester (MAN), 71 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 102 km
Stations
Leeds railway station, 2.3 km · Headingley railway station, 3.7 km · Burley Park railway station, 2.6 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Buslingthorpe, Leeds
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–9
  • Liverpool → Buslingthorpe, Leeds
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Buslingthorpe, Leeds
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Buslingthorpe, Leeds

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Buslingthorpe, Leeds. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries sail overnight from Rotterdam (Netherlands) to Kingston upon Hull.
  • Get inHull is an hour by train or car from Leeds, and the ferry port is 3 miles east of Hull city centre: buses run from there to the railway station.
  • Go nextLeeds is a major transport hub, so many outlying attractions can be done as day trips.

From Wikivoyage: Leeds, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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If you know how people move in Buslingthorpe, Leeds – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Buslingthorpe, Leeds

Buslingthorpe, Leeds is 2 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Leedscity in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom1.8 km
  • Headingleysuburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England2.7 km
  • Holbeckinner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England2.9 km
  • Armleyarea of the west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK3.6 km
  • Moortownsuburb in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Burleyarea of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England2.5 km