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Meanwood, Leeds — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Meanwood is a suburb of north-west Leeds and a former village, its name still carried by Meanwood Towers and Holy Trinity Church.
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Where to stay in Meanwood
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
Houses, not hotels, fill Meanwood. Anyone staying out here is trading hotel choice for quiet, and the practical options are central Leeds for supply or a room near North Hill Road if the point of the trip is Meanwood itself. Holy Trinity Church marks the older core.
Meanwood Towers and Cumberland Priory stand among the grander houses that survived the village becoming a suburb.
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North Hill Road
The address the older Meanwood houses gather on, North Hill House and 17 North Hill Road among them. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in North Hill Roadthe old village ground of MeanwoodHoly Trinity Church side
The corner around Holy Trinity Church and Grange Cottage, where the former village still reads as one. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in Holy Trinity Church sidesupply, with Meanwood kept as a day outCentral Leeds
The Leeds city centre holds the hotels that north-west suburbs such as Meanwood do not.Find hotels in Central LeedsHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Leeds
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Churches & Religious Sites
2- Holy Trinity Church Heritage
- Iglesia Ni Cristo Heritage
Landmarks & Notable Places
8- Meanwood Towers Heritage
- North Hill House Heritage
- 17 North Hill Road Heritage
- Grange Cottage Heritage
- Cumberland Priory Heritage
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- Arncliffe Heritage
- Red Hill Heritage
- Ridgeway House Heritage
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About Meanwood
What are the main landmarks in Meanwood?
Meanwood Towers is the landmark name. Holy Trinity Church anchors the older village ground, and Cumberland Priory, Ridgeway House and Arncliffe carry most of the district's stock of listed houses between them. Grange Cottage sits among them.
North Hill House and 17 North Hill Road share a name, with Red Hill and the Iglesia Ni Cristo also named among the buildings here.
What is the history of Meanwood?
Meanwood was a village before Leeds reached it. What is now a north-west Leeds suburb stood apart from the city, and the older buildings kept from that time, Meanwood Towers, Cumberland Priory, Grange Cottage, are the clearest evidence left of it. The city closed around it.
Holy Trinity Church, North Hill House and Arncliffe belong to the same inherited stock, and Meanwood's village name outlasted the boundary that once made it true.
Where is Meanwood?
Meanwood lies in north-west Leeds, part of West Yorkshire, a former village long since built into the streets of the surrounding city.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Meanwood?
North Hill Road: a room inside Meanwood itself. Holy Trinity Church side: the old village ground of Meanwood. Central Leeds: supply, with Meanwood kept as a day out.
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Updated October 2026