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Alwoodley, Leeds — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Alwoodley is a suburb and civil parish of Leeds, an affluent stretch of West Yorkshire where old farmhouses and Adel Mill survive among the housing.
About Alwoodley
Where to stay in Alwoodley
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Alwoodley is a place people live in. Rooms are scarce across the parish, so central Leeds carries the practical supply, and a stay out here makes sense only when King Lane, Adel Mill or the parish farmland is the reason for the trip. Housing dominates the LS17 streets.
Moss Hall and Mount Farmhouse survive among them, and St Barnabas stands among the parish's named buildings.
About Alwoodley
What are the main landmarks in Alwoodley?
Adel Mill is the set piece. Cottages, a millrace, maltings and gate piers survive around it, with The Tudors and Victoria House among the names still attached to the buildings there. St Barnabas stands apart.
Older ground shows at the Adel Roman fort and settlement, at Langley Well east of Grove Farm, and at the rock-carved human figure south of King Lane Farm.
What is the history of Alwoodley?
Farming came first. Mount Farmhouse, Herd Farmhouse, Moss Hall and King Lane Farmhouse are what a working parish left behind, and their names still fix the older field boundaries inside a suburb of Leeds. Rome was here earlier still.
The Adel Roman fort and settlement lies within the same ground, and a rock-carved human figure survives in the fields near King Lane Farm.
Where is Alwoodley?
The parish sits five miles north of central Leeds, its edges running out past King Lane and Alwoodley Lane into the farmland of Herd Farm and Grove Farm.
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Updated September 2026