Lawnswood: what to know before moving day
Most houses in Lawnswood are large private detached and semi-detached homes. The detail worth knowing is the number of 1930s flats built to look like semi-detached houses: each block holds four flats, and every flat has its own front door. From the street it can be hard to tell which door is yours, so give us the flat number and say whether it is upstairs or down.
The shops are mostly on the western side of Otley Road, including a Co-op and a post office that is named Adel Post Office, with the Lawnswood Arms, a large pub, towards the top end and a petrol station opposite. Otley Old Road and Spennithorne Avenue lead off to the west. Lawnswood School stands on the Ring Road, and Lawnswood Cemetery, opened in 1875 with the first crematorium in Leeds added in 1905, is a landmark everyone local knows. The nearest railway station is Horsforth.
How the van gets to Lawnswood
Lawnswood sits on the junction of two main roads. The A660 Otley Road runs through it from Headingley towards Adel and Otley, and the A6120 Leeds Outer Ring Road crosses it here. From Bradford the van can follow the Ring Road from Farsley straight to Lawnswood without going near the city centre. Door to door, the Ring Road run to Otley Old Road is estimated at roughly 20 to 35 minutes from Bradford.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 20 to 35 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Lawnswood
Each service below links to its Leeds page, which covers how the job works in and around Leeds.
Lawnswood: questions before you book
Why do some sources put Lawnswood in Adel and Wharfedale ward?
Because the suburb has no fixed edge. The postcode LS16 6HD, near the Otley Road junction, is in Weetwood ward on ONS data, while some descriptions put parts of Lawnswood in Adel and Wharfedale. Either way it is Leeds City Council.
We live in one of the four-flat blocks. What should we tell you?
Your flat number, whether your door is on the ground floor or leads to stairs, and if the path to the door is shared. That lets us plan loading without knocking on the wrong neighbour's door.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): LS16 6HD is in Weetwood ward, Leeds, unparished area
- Lawnswood (Wikipedia): north-west Leeds, 4 miles from the centre; borders West Park, Adel, Ireland Wood, Holt Park; A660 through the area; nearest station Horsforth; large detached and semi-detached houses; 1930s flats in blocks of four styled as semis, each with a private entrance; Co-op, 'Adel Post Office', Lawnswood Arms, petrol station on Otley Road; Lawnswood School on the Ring Road; cemetery opened 1875, crematorium 1905; mentions both Adel and Wharfedale and Weetwood wards
- A660 road (Wikipedia): Otley Road crosses the A6120 at Lawnswood and continues past Adel
- Leeds Outer Ring Road (Wikipedia): A6120 from Farsley round the north of Leeds
- OpenStreetMap data (Nominatim reverse lookups around the point): Otley Road, Otley Old Road, Spennithorne Avenue, The Grange Road, Ring Road West Park, Ring Road Weetwood, New Adel Lane