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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.
About Meanwood
Where to stay in Meanwood
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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.
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.
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Updated September 2026