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Farnley, Leeds

Farnley is a district in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Leeds city centre, between Wortley, Bramley and the countryside around Pudsey and Gildersome, in the LS12 Leeds postcode area.

Farnley, Leeds
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The place

Farnley is a district in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Leeds city centre, between Wortley, Bramley and the countryside around Pudsey and Gildersome, in the LS12 Leeds postcode area. It is part of the Leeds City Ward Farnley and Wortley with a population of 24,213 according to the 2011 Census. New Farnley is a nearby commuter village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Farnley, 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
    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.

    3.1 km · football stadium in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kirkstall Abbey

    Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, north-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England. It is set in a public park on the north bank of the River Aire.

    3.7 km · Cistercian monastery in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Leeds Grand Mosque

    Leeds Grand Mosque is a mosque in Leeds, England with a regular congregation of 3,000. It is located at 9 Woodsley Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, LS6 1SN West Yorkshire, England.

    3.8 km · mosque in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Headingley Rugby Stadium

    Headingley Rugby Stadium is a rugby league stadium in Headingley, Leeds and shares the same site as Headingley Cricket Ground. It is the home ground of the Leeds Rhinos, and is the fifth largest rugby league stadium in England.

    3.9 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Leeds Industrial Museum

    The Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills is a museum of industrial heritage located in Armley, near Leeds, in West Yorkshire, Northern England. The museum includes collections of textile machinery, railway equipment and heavy engineering amongst others.

    2.8 km · museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fulneck Moravian Church

    Fulneck Moravian Church and its associated settlement were established on the Fulneck estate, Pudsey, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1744 by Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, a Moravian Bishop and Lutheran priest, following a donation of land by the evangelical Anglican clergyman, Benjamin Ingham. Fulneck is now part of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire.

    3.2 km · church in Leeds, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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
  8. 08
    Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Leeds

    Our Lady of Lourdes Church is a Roman Catholic church in the parish of St Jeanne Jugan, Leeds. It was built by the Society of Jesus in the 1920s and it is situated on Cardigan Road in Burley, Leeds.

    3.8 km · Catholic church in Leeds, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Christ Church, Armley

    Christ Church in Armley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is one of two Church of England churches in Armley; the other being the larger St.

    1.7 km · church in Armley, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Kirkstall Road Viaduct

    Kirkstall Road Viaduct is a Grade II listed railway viaduct carrying the Harrogate line over the A65 Kirkstall Road, the River Aire, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Burley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. It was built in 1849 by the engineer Thomas Grainger for the Leeds and Thirsk Railway.

    3.1 km · railway viaduct in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Farnley, Leeds

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 9 km · Manchester (MAN), 66 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 96 km
Stations
Headingley railway station, 3.7 km · Burley Park railway station, 3.7 km · Cottingley railway station, 2.9 km · Bramley railway station, 2.5 km · Pudsey bus station, 3.1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Farnley, Leeds
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £8–10
  • Liverpool → Farnley, Leeds
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £12–16
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Farnley, Leeds
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Farnley, 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 Farnley, 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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  5. 05
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If you know how people move in Farnley, Leeds – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Farnley, Leeds

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

  • Pudseytown in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England3.3 km
  • Bramleyarea of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England2.9 km
  • Gildersomevillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England3.4 km
  • Kirkstallsuburb of Leeds3.4 km
  • Armleyarea of the west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK2.2 km
  • Churwellsuburb in Morley, West Yorkshire, England, UK3.4 km