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Churwell

Churwell is a settlement in the civil parish of Morley, in the Leeds district, in West Yorkshire, England, between Leeds city centre and Morley.

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The place

Churwell is a settlement in the civil parish of Morley, in the Leeds district, in West Yorkshire, England, between Leeds city centre and Morley. It is 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Leeds city centre and 1.5 miles (2 km) away from the Leeds United stadium Elland Road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Churwell

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
    Elland Road

    Elland Road, or Elland Road Stadium, is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919. With a capacity of 37,633, the stadium is the 14th largest football stadium in England.

    2.2 km · football stadium in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Morley War Memorial, Scatcherd Park

    The Morley War Memorial is a British national war memorial situated in Scatcherd Park, Morley, Leeds, England. It was sculpted by Walter Henry Gilbert and cast by H.H. Martyn & Co., it was unveiled 21 May 1927 by Alderman Joseph Kirk and accepted by Mayor Alderman Thomas Marshall.

    1.8 km · war memorial in Morley, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Cross Church, Middleton

    The Church of St Cross is in Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is an active Anglican church and part of the Armley deanery in the archdeaconry of Leeds, Diocese of Leeds.

    3.4 km · church in Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holbeck Viaduct

    The Holbeck Viaduct Project is a community project that proposes bringing the Holbeck Viaduct in Leeds, England back into public use. The project is supported by a community group of the same name.

    3.9 km · railway viaduct in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Bartholomew's Church, Armley

    St Bartholomew's Church, Armley is a parish church in the Church of England in Armley, West Yorkshire. The church is one of two Church of England churches in Armley; the other being Christ Church.

    3.7 km · church in Leeds, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Stratford Street Mosque

    Stratford Street Mosque is a mosque in Beeston, Leeds, England. Three people responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings were regulars at Friday prayers at the mosque.

    3.1 km · mosque in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Mary In The Wood (Congregational)

    St Mary's in the Wood Church was a United Reformed Church place of worship in Morley, West Yorkshire, England. The church, built in 1876-78 on the site of a medieval church, is grade II listed.

    1.7 km · church building in Morley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Mary the Virgin, Middleton

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Middleton, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the Armley deanery in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church and its lych gate are Grade II listed buildings.

    3.2 km · church in Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    White Rose Centre

    The White Rose Centre is a shopping centre in the Beeston area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It spans two floors and is near the M621 motorway.

    1.1 km · shopping mall in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Greenhouse

    Greenhouse is an eight-storey, mixed-use block of eco-flats in Beeston, Leeds. The building took its present form in 2010, after renovation of a 1938 development, Shaftesbury House.

    3.3 km · eco-building in Beeston, Leeds · 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 Churwell

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 13 km · Manchester (MAN), 65 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 96 km
Stations
Morley railway station, 1.2 km · Cottingley railway station, 800 m · Holbeck railway station, 4 km · Moor Road (Leeds) railway station, 3.7 km · Park Halt railway station, 3.5 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Churwell
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Churwell
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Churwell
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Churwell

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 Churwell. 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    305 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    338 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    342 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    355 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    366 km

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

Around it

Next door to Churwell

Churwell is 5 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Morleytown in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom1.6 km
  • Holbeckinner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England3.8 km
  • Gildersomevillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England2.9 km
  • Middletonsuburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK3.1 km
  • Beestonsuburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire2.7 km
  • Tingleyvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.7 km