Burmantofts: what to know before moving day
Burmantofts was rebuilt after the Second World War, slowly at first: a few houses around Torre Road and Lupton Avenue in the 1950s, then most of the multi-storey blocks by the mid-1960s, with the whole area finished around the early 1970s and a number of blocks refurbished since. The blocks come in different heights, so when you ask for a price, say which block, which floor and whether the lift is big enough for your largest piece. Only a few 19th-century houses remain, close to the old Burton's building.
Burmantofts Pottery made ceramic pipes and building materials here from 1859 until 1957, and in 1960 the Leeds Corporation took over its site for housing and the Shakespeare school. Montague Burton's Hudson Road works, begun in 1921, grew into the biggest clothing factory in the world. St Agnes' Church on Stoney Rock Lane, consecrated in 1889, is the one historic building left, Grade II listed with a reredos of Burmantofts faience.
How the van gets to Burmantofts
York Road, the A64, runs close by. From Bradford, the A647 into Leeds and the Inner Ring Road bring the van round the centre to it, and Beckett Street, Torre Road and Stoney Rock Lane are the main roads through the estate.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 25 to 40 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Burmantofts
Each service below links to its Leeds page, which covers how the job works in and around Leeds.
Burmantofts: questions before you book
Burmantofts has no station of its own, so which one is closest?
The nearest are Leeds, in the city centre, and Cross Gates further east. A move here is a road job, starting from York Road.
When did the Lincoln Green and Burmantofts flats go up?
Lincoln Green, next door, got its high-rise council flats in the 1960s slightly ahead of Burmantofts, which caught up by the middle of the decade. Both are LS9, so the block name and street are what the van needs.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): LS9 7JH is in Burmantofts & Richmond Hill ward, Leeds, unparished
- Burmantofts (Wikipedia): 1960s high-rise housing next to the city centre and St James's Hospital; Burmantofts Pottery 1859-1957; Burton's Hudson Road factory (1921); name from burgage men's tofts; post-war rebuilding around Torre Road and Lupton Avenue; pottery site bought in 1960 for housing and the Shakespeare school; Lincoln Green's high-rise; blocks of various heights, some refurbished; few 19th-century houses near the Burtons warehouse; St Agnes' on Stoney Rock Lane (1889, Grade II, faience reredos); adjacent to the A64; nearest stations Leeds and Cross Gates
- St James's University Hospital (Wikipedia): the hospital beside Burmantofts and Harehills
- A647 road (Wikipedia): Bradford to the Armley Gyratory
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): Beckett Street, Torre Road, Stoney Rock Lane, Nippet Lane, the Shakespeare streets, St Agnes Church, Burton's, St James's University Hospital