Thorner: what to know before moving day
Main Street keeps a medieval layout of long plots running back from a market street, from the market granted in 1245. The parishes of Thorner and Wothersome have 34 listed buildings, all Grade II, most of them houses along Main Street, and St Peter's Church is one. The base of a medieval market cross stands on Butts Garth. The main part of the village became a conservation area in 1970, which has held back new building in the centre.
Thorner has no street lighting, worth remembering if a winter move could run into the evening. The pubs are the Mexborough Arms and The Fox; the Victory Hall is on Carr Lane, and the Parish Centre, the school of 1787, stands next to the church. The railway station on the Cross Gates to Wetherby line closed in 1964 and its site was built over with housing, and one of the old Methodist chapels is now flats.
How the van gets to Thorner
Thorner is close to the A1, the A58 and the A64. In the village, Main Street, Carr Lane, Milner Lane, Church Hill and Bramham Road carry the traffic, and Thorner Lane heads south past Sandhills to the A6120 East Leeds Orbital Route at Whinmoor. The number 7 bus links the village with Leeds, Wetherby and Harrogate.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 35 to 45 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Thorner
Each service below links to its Garforth page, which covers how the job works in and around Garforth.
Thorner: questions before you book
Why do old records put Scarcroft and Shadwell under Thorner?
Because they were townships in the old parish of Thorner until 1866, when they became separate civil parishes. Today Thorner has its own parish council, and its bins and council tax go through Leeds City Council.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): LS14 3JT is in Harewood ward, Leeds, parish of Thorner
- Thorner (Wikipedia): 8 miles north-east of Leeds, 7 miles south-west of Wetherby, 1,646 people in 2011, market of 1245 and the Main Street layout, cross base on Butts Garth, conservation area 1970 and 2009, no street lighting, Mexborough Arms and The Fox, Victory Hall on Carr Lane, Parish Centre in the 1787 school, station closed 1964 and built over, chapel converted to flats, Scarcroft and Shadwell separate in 1866, near the A1, A58 and A64, number 7 bus
- Listed buildings in Thorner (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List): 34 listed buildings in Thorner and Wothersome, all Grade II, most along Main Street
- OpenStreetMap map data (API extract): Main Street, Carr Lane, Milner Lane, Church Hill, Bramham Road, Butts Garth, St Peter's, Thorner Victory Hall, Parish Centre, the Mexborough Arms and The Fox, the Leeds to Wetherby trackbed