page_title: Moortown, Leeds
section_title: General description
hierarchical_section_title: Moortown, Leeds / General description
caption_attribution_description: Water Tower above reservoir, Harrogate Road, Moortown, Leeds LS17
context_page_description: Moortown is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England in the LS17 postcode area. It is a civil parish and sits in the Moortown ward of Leeds City Council in the north east of the city.
  It is situated between Roundhay and Gledhow on the east and Weetwood on the west, with Chapel Allerton to the south, and Alwoodley to the north. It is synonymous with Moor Allerton, and institutions in the area use both names. Moortown lies in Leeds 17, which was reported to contain the most expensive housing area in Yorkshire and the Humber by The Times in 2007.
context_section_description: The suburb is located around the junction of the (north-south) Harrogate Road A61 road and the Leeds Outer Ring Road (A6120) (west-east), at that point called the Moortown Ring Road, and overlooked by a Water Tower. Scott Hall Road (A61) and Harrogate Road lead southwards to Leeds city centre. The Leeds City Council boundary for Moortown ward is the Ring Road, with properties to the north in the Alwoodley ward. The Church of England parish includes areas north of the Ring Road. Woodland north and south of the Ring Road and by the water tower is called the Moortown Plantation.
  Moortown includes small estates of council housing around the junction of King Lane and the Moortown Ring Road.
caption: Moortown Water Tower, north of the Ring Road
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