Garforth
Garforth is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, Yorkshire. It sits in the Garforth and Swillington ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds East parliamentary constituency.Photo: Mtaylor848, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Photo: John Davidson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garforth Library and One Stop Centre and Garforth Academy.
Garforth Academy
School
Photo: Chemical Engineer, Public domain.
Garforth Academy is a secondary school and sixth form for pupils aged 11–18 and is located on Lidgett Lane in Garforth, West Yorkshire, England. The school been awarded the Artsmark, Investors in People Award, Schools Achievement Award, Education Extra award, Sportsmark, and Beacon School status, and OFSTED described the school in 2010 as an "outstanding school".
SLP College
College
SLP College is an independent, co-educational performing arts college based in Garforth near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brown Moor and Kippax.
Brown Moor
Neighborhood
Photo: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brown Moor is an area in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, east of Austhorpe and north of Colton. The M1 motorway and the A63 road pass it on its eastern flank and the A6120 road in the south.
Kippax
Town
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kippax is a town and civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated to the east of the city, near to Garforth and Great Preston. Kippax is situated 1½ miles southeast of Garforth.
Colton
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Colton is a district of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, situated between Cross Gates to the north, Halton and Halton Moor to the west, Whitkirk to the north-west and Austhorpe to the north-east. Temple Newsam lies directly south of the estate. Colton is situated 2 miles west of Garforth.
Garforth
- Type: Town with 14,800 residents
- Description: town in Leeds, England
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.79048° or 53° 47′ 26″ northLongitude
-1.39252° or 1° 23′ 33″ westPopulation
14,800Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GRFOpen location code
9C5WQJR4+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 82751265OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Garforth” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Garforth”
- Basque: “Garforth”
- Bengali: “গারফোথ”
- Bulgarian: “Гарфортх”
- Cebuano: “Garforth”
- Chinese: “噶尔佛夫”
- Chinese: “噶爾佛夫”
- Dutch: “Garforth”
- Esperanto: “Garforth”
- French: “Garforth”
- German: “Garforth”
- Greek: “Γκάρφορθ”
- Gujarati: “ગાર્ફોર્થ”
- Indonesian: “Garforth”
- Irish: “Garforth”
- Italian: “Garforth”
- Japanese: “ガーフォース”
- Kannada: “ಗಾರ್ಫೋರ್ತ್”
- Korean: “가포스”
- Ladin: “Garforth”
- Lithuanian: “Garfortas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Garforth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Garforth”
- Norwegian: “Garforth”
- Persian: “گارفورث”
- Polish: “Garforth”
- Portuguese: “Garforth”
- Russian: “Гарфорт”
- Spanish: “Garforth”
- Swedish: “Garforth”
- Tamil: “கரிபோர்த்”
- Telugu: “గర్ఫోర్త్”
- Urdu: “جارفورتھ”
- Welsh: “Garforth”
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