War memorials and closed churchyards

The registers for closed churchyards should be available by contacting the minister of the church concerned or if the church is closed you may find the information on the West Yorkshire Archive Service website.

​Closed churchyards

War memorials

We also look after 59 war memorials in the Leeds area. You can find details of war memorials in Leeds below.

The memorials marked CWGC are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

  • Aberford - opposite Almshouses, Main Street
  • Allerton Bywater - opposite Church Main street, Station Road
  • Armley - Armley Park
  • Barwick - by the Maypole
  • Beckett Street - in the cemetery (CWGC)
  • Beeston - in the cemetery
  • Beeston - bottom of Dewsbury Road
  • Boston Spa - Main Street
  • Bramley - Bramley Park, entrance off Town Street
  • Bramham - middle of junction with Front Street and Low Way
  • Calverley - Victoria Park opposite Methodist Church
  • Chapel Allerton - 100 yards past old Police Station
  • Churwell - up Churwell Hill junction with Little Lane
  • City Centre - cenotaph outside Art Gallery (consult with city centre management)
  • City Centre - outside Leeds Parish Church
  • City Centre - nuclear memorial outside Leeds Parish Church
  • Clifford - Main Street middle of road junction near to church
  • Collingham - Main Road by Memorial Hall, Smithy Court
  • East Keswick - Crabtree Lane opposite Hearfield House
  • Farnley - Chapel Lane / Lawns Lane next to Farnley Park
  • Farsley - the Green junction of Calverley Lane and Bagley Lane
  • Garforth - Garforth cemetery, Ninelands Lane
  • Gildersome - Town Street junction with Town End
  • Great Preston - Preston Lane opposite Wood Lane
  • Guiseley - Stocks Memorial, Oxford Street / Queensway Junction
  • Guiseley - St Oswald's Church Lych Gate, Church Street / Town Street
  • Harehills - in the Cemetery (CWGC)
  • Headingley - outside St. Chad's Church
  • Headingley - outside St Michaels Church
  • Holbeck - in cemetery (CWGC)
  • Horsforth - Ring Road / Bottom of Fink Hill opposite the 11th Earl Pub
  • Horsforth - Stanhope Drive
  • Hunslet - St Mary's Church, Church Street
  • Hunslet - Hunslet Cemetery Extension 1 (CWGC)
  • Kippax - Longdike Lane junction Park Avenue
  • Kirkstall - near traffic lights, Bridge Road between Alders and Mill Race
  • Lawnswood - in the cemetery Section W just inside gate off New Adel Lane (CWGC)
  • Masham - Colsterdale
  • Meanwood - Memorial Drive off Green Lane
  • Moortown - on the roundabout, near church, Harrogate Road
  • Morley - in Scatchered Park, Queen Street
  • Morley - King Street and St Pauls Street outside Church
  • Otley - Boroughgate, near to Church
  • Otley - Bondgate / Crossgate near to Church
  • Otley - Ilkley Road, Grove Hill Park by roundabout
  • Oulton - Aberford Road junction with Fleet Lane
  • Pool - Main Street / Church Lane
  • Pudsey - Chapeltown junction with Carlisle Road and South Parade
  • Rawdon - before lights, corner of Micklefield Road junction with Leeds Road
  • Robin Hood - corner of Sharpe Lane junction with Leeds Road
  • Rothwell - Commercial Street near the Health Centre, back of Morrisons
  • Rothwell - past the park at junction Gillett Lane and Oulton Lane
  • Scholes - Main Street, on the sharp bend by library
  • Stourton - Wakefield Road / Thwaite Gate junction Pontefract Road lights
  • Thorpe Arch - on the green past Prison The Village Junction
  • Tingley - off Tingley roundabout on the right
  • Wetherby - on the bridge as you go into Wetherby, on the right
  • Whitkirk - 100 yards past Whitkirk Cemetery
  • Yeadon - outside Yeadon Town Hall

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