Leeds Shopping - Guide to Shops and Department Stores in the City of Leeds

Leeds Shopping Guide to shops in the City of Leeds

Leeds is probably the best City in the country for shopping outside London.

I wrote the above a while back, and have been proved correct. A recent survey by Experian, a property and retail consultancy ranked Leeds in the second position, after London's West End as top English shopping venue.

The beauty of Leeds is that the city centre is one mass of shops in an area of just under a quarter mile wide by just over a quarter mile high. This area runs from Park Row in the West to Leeds Markets and the Bus Station in the East. The Merrion Centre in the North to The Station, Boar Lane and the Corn Exchange in the South. There are no steep hills within this area. With the Markets, Stores, Arcades and Shopping centres large areas are under cover, ideal on a rainy day. Large Areas of the City centre have been pedestrianised, making shopping a pleasure.

There are several Shopping Centres or Malls, Department stores and Arcades allowing you to visit shops all under cover, ideal for those rainy shopping days.

Arcades.

All the arcades run off Briggate or New Briggate going toward Vicar Lane or Lands Lane

Grand, Queens, Thorntons, Victoria Quarter, Market

Leeds Arcades more information and photographs

Shopping Centres, Malls and Undercover Shopping City Centre

Corn Exchange

This building built in 1863 by the architect Cuthbert Brodrick , who also did the Town Hall, was stylishly converted into a shopping mall

Visit our Corn Exchange pages

Leeds City Market

Known locally as Kirkgate Market

Information
History
Photographs
More information Leeds City Market

Granary Wharf

Off Neville Street and situated underneath Leeds City Station. See our River walk for photos of this area
Hotel
Bars
Area for sun bathing in summer
Historic Dark Arches, where the River Aire flows underneath the station.
Start of the Leeds Liverpool Canal
Junction of the River Aire & Leeds Liverpool Canal

Trinity Shopping Centre (includes Bond Street Centre)

Trinity Shopping Centre

Trinity Shopping Centre Photographs, List of shops and locations

Merrion Centre

Saint Johns Centre

Index Store

Units 15/16/17 St Johns Centre Leeds LS2 8LQ Tel: 0870 163 4842

Headrow Centre (formerly Scofields Centre)

Shopping Centres, Malls and Undercover Shopping Outskirts

Arndale Centre

Crossgate Centre

Crown Point Shopping Centre

This is very close to the City Centre and has plenty of free car parking for Crown Point shoppers

Situated opposite on the side of Hunslet Road

Seacroft Centre

White Rose Shopping Centre

Dewsbury Road

Briggate and Commercial Street

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The heart of pedestrianised area, Briggate being the main shopping street, housing such names as Harvey Nichols, and Debenhams store, and many national "High Street" well known shops.

Briggate was where the old markets used to be held and trading especially wool is what made Leeds a prosperous Town and later on a City. See the history of Leeds