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Lawnswood, Leeds — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Lawnswood is a small suburb in the north west of Leeds, known above all for the listed memorials of Lawnswood Cemetery.
About Lawnswood
Where to stay in Lawnswood
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Lawnswood keeps its lodging thin, so the practical choice runs between the quiet streets near Lawnswood Cemetery and a base in central Leeds within the same council area. St Helens Cottage survives nearby. The Adel and Wharfedale Ward around it is residential, with verges, school grounds and cemetery walls rather than any hotel strip.
Sam Wilson and Arthur Currer Briggs lie in the same ground.
About Lawnswood
What are the main landmarks in Lawnswood?
Lawnswood Cemetery holds the set. The Ethel Preston memorial stands among the graves, a piece of funerary sculpture recorded alongside the marked plots that give this corner of Leeds its listed heritage. Sam Wilson and Arthur Currer Briggs each have a recorded memorial and grave inside the cemetery.
St Helens Cottage rounds out the list.
What is the history of Lawnswood?
Lawnswood grew as a suburb. Its recorded past sits mostly in Lawnswood Cemetery, where the graves of Sam Wilson and Arthur Currer Briggs and the Ethel Preston memorial are the structures listed by name. St Helens Cottage belongs to the same short list.
Administratively the suburb has been folded into the Adel and Wharfedale Ward of the City of Leeds Council, and into the West Yorkshire Urban Area beyond that.
Where is Lawnswood?
The suburb falls inside the Adel and Wharfedale Ward of the City of Leeds Council, one small piece of the wider West Yorkshire Urban Area.
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Updated September 2026