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Burmantofts, Leeds — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Burmantofts is an inner-city area of east Leeds, high-rise housing beside St James's Hospital and the Thackray Museum of Medicine.
About Burmantofts
Where to stay in Burmantofts
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Burmantofts adjoins the city centre. That proximity is the whole argument for it: the Leeds centre is walkable from here, St James's Hospital is next door for anyone visiting a patient, and the Thackray Museum of Medicine sits alongside the hospital. High-rise blocks dominate the streets.
Rooms are few in the area itself, so most people book in central Leeds and cross over on foot.
About Burmantofts
What are the main landmarks in Burmantofts?
Medicine gives Burmantofts its landmark. The Thackray Museum of Medicine occupies the ground beside St James's Hospital, and Beckett Street Cemetery lies close by with the Galli Family Memorial and the monument to Sarah Kidney among its stones. St Agnes' Church serves the housing.
The high-rise blocks fill everything between them.
What is the history of Burmantofts?
The blocks arrived in the nineteen-sixties. High-rise housing replaced what stood before on this inner-city ground, and the shape of that decade still reads plainly against the older institutions around it. St James's Hospital stayed.
So did Beckett Street Cemetery, where the Galli Family Memorial and the monument to Sarah Kidney survive, and so did St Agnes' Church among the towers.
Where is Burmantofts?
The area sits in inner-city east Leeds, in West Yorkshire, adjacent to the city centre on one side and St James's Hospital on the other.
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Updated September 2026