Scholes
Scholes-in-Elmet is a village in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Its name is a plural of Old Norse skáli meaning "temporary shed". It is sometimes known as Scholes-in-Elmet to distinguish it from the villages of the same name in the Holme Valley and Cleckheaton, also by analogy with the neighbouring village of Barwick-in-Elmet and Sherburn in Elmet.Photo: Mtaylor848, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 2,270 residents
- Description: village in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Scholes, Leeds”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scholes Library and The Barley Corn Inn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Swarcliffe and Seacroft.
Swarcliffe
Suburb
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Swarcliffe, originally the Swarcliffe Estate, is a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is 4.9 miles east of Leeds city centre, and within the LS14 and LS15 Leeds postcode area.
Seacroft
Suburb
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Seacroft is an outer-city suburb/township consisting mainly of council estate housing covering an extensive area of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Manston
Suburb
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Manston is a suburb and former village to the east of Cross Gates, Leeds, England, situated 4 miles east of Leeds city centre.
Scholes
- Category: locality
- Location: Barwick in Elmet and Scholes, Leeds, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.82607° or 53° 49′ 34″ northLongitude
-1.42765° or 1° 25′ 40″ westPopulation
2,270Elevation
331 feet (101 metres)Open location code
9C5WRHGC+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 982336559OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638386Wikidata ID
Q7432092
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Satellite Map
Discover Scholes from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Scholes” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Счолес”
- Cebuano: “Scholes”
- Dutch: “Scholes, Leeds”
- French: “Scholes”
- Irish: “Scholes”
- Polish: “Scholes (Leeds)”
- Polish: “Scholes”
- Slovenian: “Scholes”
- Spanish: “Scholes (Leeds)”
- Spanish: “Scholes”
- Swedish: “Scholes, Leeds”
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Notable Places Nearby
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