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It includes small estates of council housing around the junction of King Lane and the Moortown Ring Road.[8]

Housing estates

Black Moor & Cranmer Bank

To the north of the ring road and west of King Lane is the Black Moor & Cranmer Bank estate, named after the moor on which Moortown was situated.

Lingfield

To the north of the ring road and east of King Lane is the Lingfield housing estate comprising mainly semi-detached properties and privately owned flats.

Queenshill

To the south of the ring road and east of King Lane is the Queenshill estate, mainly low-rise flats built in the 1950s and 60s.^[9] This area contains a small row of shops, a fire station, Moortown Baptist Church, and the offices of the Leeds Jewish Housing Association, who have plans to redevelop the area for the benefit of its clients.^[9]

Leafield

A smaller development of public housing is the south of the ring road and west of King Lane, essentially in the grounds of a former mansion, now Leafield Clinic.

Darkwood

A small 1990 development low-rise flats off Shadwell Lane, in woods known as Blackwoods, part of the Forest of Leeds.^[10] The property was originally a large private estate called "Blackwood". It was acquired by the City of Leeds sometime prior to 1963 and converted into several large flats with the extensive grounds preserved until the subsequent development of low rise flats in the 1990s.

Moortown Corner

Moortown Corner is the junction between Street Lane and Harrogate Road, a local shopping area and geographical reference. The building known as the Corner House was built as a cinema (1938–1940), ballroom and restaurant but now contains shops. From 1968 to 2008 it contained a

Moortown Corner is served by

Moor Allerton District Centre is adjacent to the Black Moor estate, north of the Ring Road and west of the junction with King Lane, which opened in 1982.^[12] It includes a public library.

However it is mainly a shopping centre, with a large Sainsbury's, a Homebase, a Chinese Restaurant, a KeySmith's.

It includes a public house, the Penny Fun, whose name relates to the history of the area as follows. The word 'pen' comes from the Celtic for 'hill'. What is now Tunnel How Hill is visible from the Centre to the south-west. It was previously Pen-how-fyn, and a hamlet around what is now the Centre was Paenfynaen (where fynaen means settlement). Tunnel How Hill was referred to as Penny Fun in the 19th century and several houses in the vicinity used the name.^[13] There is a Penny Field nearby in Meanwood Park.

Religions

Moortown has longstanding

Moortown is home to St Gemma's Hospice. This is situated to the south of Moortown Corner on Harrogate Road. St Gemmas Hospice have many charity shops around Leeds, assisting funding for the hospice, with branches in Alwoodley, Beeston, Boston Spa, Chapel Allerton, Cross Gates, Garforth, Guiseley, Halton, Horsforth, Ilkley, Morley, Oakwood, Otley, Pudsey, Roundhay, West Park, Wetherby and Yeadon. St Gemmas Hospice also have a furniture shop on Harrogate Road.^[14]

Sport

There is a

As of May, 2015 there are three Labour Councillors and one Labour MP that are responsible for raising concerns / issues from the Moortown Community.

The West Yorkshire Police are the local government and also operate a station within Moortown and are responsible for reducing crime in the area.

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