Headingley

Home to the renowned and recently re-named Headingley Carnegie stadium, Headingley is the home of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, the Leeds Rhinos Rugby League and the Leeds Tykes Rugby Union clubs. Unrivalled in student circles by any other suburb of Leeds as the place to be, the long history of its popularity with those students and the spending power they bring means that it has most banks and building societies represented by a local branch, a truly local cinema, and a super variety of shops bars and restaurants that is just too large to list. Headingley's local Railway station is on the Harrogate Line and connects to the City Centre at one end of the line and Harrogate at the other with stops including Park and Horsforth.

With fantastic bus links as well Headingley has become not only the most popular place for Leeds students to live but certain areas of the suburb have also become highly popular with young professionals! (See The Guardian article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,309232,00.html.)

Having originated as an individual village Headingley is now more like a small town with a wide mix of properties from stone built terraces dating back to the mid 17th century through traditional semis and larger detached properties to the most modern purpose built apartments. Whilst some larger properties have been bought by the Universities and converted into Halls of Residence others remain in family use whilst still others have been converted into flats. Its therefore easy to understand why its so popular not only with students and young professionals but also local families. The downside to all of the foregoing that it is probably the most expensive suburb in terms of rental costs and in the top four areas for house prices in Leeds.