Lying to the south-west of Leeds city centre, Farnley is a suburb within the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. It sits in the broader Leeds district, bordered by surrounding neighbourhoods that make up this part of the city’s outer residential belt. The area is also known by the alternative name Old Farnley, a reference that hints at its longer history as a settlement before suburban development brought it more firmly into the Leeds urban area.
Character and Setting
Farnley is primarily a residential suburb, with streets of housing typical of West Yorkshire’s outer Leeds communities. The alternative name Old Farnley points to an older core, suggesting the area developed around an earlier village settlement that was gradually absorbed into the expanding city. Its position to the south-west places it within easy reach of both the city centre and the open countryside that begins where Leeds gives way to the Aire Valley and beyond.