West Yorkshire 
Free Things to Do in Leeds
Leeds has 303 free things to do to choose from, in and around West Yorkshire. They cover attractions with free entry, and the full list below is ordered by distance from the town centre so the closest options come first.
Among them are Horsforth Museum, Mental Health Muesum and M&S Company Archive: Marks in Time. 303 of them are free to visit; there is a mix of indoor and outdoor options (15 indoor, 294 outdoor); 4 welcome dogs. Each listing shows its address and, where the data is available, a website and phone number so plans can be checked before setting off.
Opening hours, prices and age suitability change from place to place and from season to season, so it is always worth confirming the details with a venue directly before travelling. Distances are straight-line estimates from the centre of Leeds; a few entries sit just over the boundary in neighbouring areas where they are the closest of their kind.
- 01 Trevelyan Square0.1 mi
- 02 Trevelyan Square0.1 mi
- 03 Leeds Play Network0.2 mi
- 04 Merrion Gardens0.2 mi
- 05 Henry Moore Institute0.2 mi
- 06 Leeds Art Gallery0.3 mi
- 07 Sovereign Square0.3 mi
- 08 Belgrave Street POS0.3 mi
- 09 Leeds City Museum0.3 mi
- 10 Mandela Gardens0.3 mi
- 11 Park Square0.3 mi
- 12 Parish Church Gardens (Penny Pocket Park)0.4 mi
- 13 Playhouse Gardens0.4 mi
- 14 St. Peter's Square0.4 mi
- 15 Queen Square0.4 mi
- 16 Queen Square0.4 mi
- 17 Lovell Park0.4 mi
- 18 Aire Park0.4 mi
- 19 Verona Square0.5 mi
- 20 Leeds Lock and Dam0.5 mi
- 21 Marlborough's Green Roof0.5 mi
- 22 Royal Armouries0.6 mi
- 23 Woodhouse Square0.6 mi
- 24 Whitehall Riverside Pocket Park0.6 mi
- 25 Little London Pocket Park Community Orchard0.6 mi
- 26 Marlborough Community Garden0.6 mi
- 27 Cannon 3320.6 mi
- 28 University of Leeds Sustainable Garden0.7 mi
- 29 Hanover Square0.7 mi
- 30 Chancellor's Court0.7 mi
- 31 Bow Street Park0.7 mi
- 32 Saxton Gardens community orchard0.7 mi
- 33 Little London Play Area0.8 mi
- 34 Little London Play Area0.8 mi
- 35 Blenheim Park0.8 mi
- 36 Blenheim Square0.8 mi
- 37 Leeds Museums Discovery Centre0.8 mi
- 38 Riverside Walk0.8 mi
- 39 Solar Rise Gardens0.9 mi
- 40 Secret Garden0.9 mi
- 41 Landing Place0.9 mi
- 42 Holbeck community orchard0.9 mi
- 43 St. George's Fields (Woodhouse Cemetery)0.9 mi
- 44 Ebor Garden1.0 mi
- 45 M&S Company Archive: Marks in Time1.0 mi
- 46 Beckett Street Amenity Corridor1.0 mi
- 47 Rosebank Millenium Green1.1 mi
- 48 Holbeck Moor Park1.1 mi
- 49 Rosebank Millennium Green Community Orchard1.1 mi
- 50 Ebor garden1.1 mi
- 51 Holbeck Moor Park1.1 mi
- 52 Hunslet Moor Park1.1 mi
- 53 Norma Hutchinson Park1.1 mi
- 54 Buslingthorpe Recreation Ground1.1 mi
- 55 Monument Moor1.2 mi
- 56 Benson Court Park1.2 mi
- 57 Woodhouse Moor Park1.2 mi
- 58 Cross Green Commuinty Allotment1.2 mi
- 59 Edgeware Green Community Orchard1.3 mi
- 60 Oblong Commuinty Garden1.3 mi
- 61 Raincliffe Park1.3 mi
- 62 Cinder Moor1.3 mi
- 63 Burmantofts Cemetery1.3 mi
- 64 Dewsbury Road Community Orchard1.3 mi
- 65 Woodhouse Moor Playground1.3 mi
- 66 Hartley Crescent Public Open Space1.3 mi
- 67 Queens Road Recreation Ground1.3 mi
- 68 Pennington Street Community Garden1.4 mi
- 69 Burley Lawn Playground1.4 mi
- 70 Brickfield Park1.4 mi
- 71 Beeston Hill Community Orchard1.4 mi
- 72 Burley Lawn1.4 mi
- 73 Little Moor1.4 mi
- 74 Rowland Road Park1.5 mi
- 75 Bedford Fields Community Forest Garden1.5 mi
- 76 Mary Seacole Memorial Garden1.5 mi
- 77 Bedford Fields Commuinty Forest Garden1.5 mi
- 78 Banstead Park1.5 mi
- 79 Reginald Park1.5 mi
- 80 Sugarwell Hill Park1.5 mi
- 81 Kirkstall Road Playground1.5 mi
- 82 Burley Green1.5 mi
- 83 East End Park1.5 mi
- 84 Ashton Road Childrens Play1.5 mi
- 85 Garnets Gardens1.6 mi
- 86 The Wellbeing Centre1.6 mi
- 87 Torre Crescent1.6 mi
- 88 Beggar's Hill1.6 mi
- 89 Meanwood Farm Orchard1.6 mi
- 90 Burley Park1.6 mi
- 91 Wortley Recreation Ground1.6 mi
- 92 Burley Park Community Orchard1.7 mi
- 93 Trentham Park1.7 mi
- 94 Nowell Mount Playing Fields1.7 mi
- 95 Hunslet Lake Park1.7 mi
- 96 Garden Plots - Back Coldcotes Avenue1.7 mi
- 97 Potternewton Park1.7 mi
- 98 Hunslet Lake1.7 mi
- 99 Cross Flatts Park1.7 mi
- 100 Potternewton Park Community Orchard1.8 mi
- 101 Burley Bottom Park1.8 mi
- 102 Cross Flats Park Community Orchard1.8 mi
- 103 Ark Community Orchard1.9 mi
- 104 Sparrow Park1.9 mi
- 105 Harehills Park1.9 mi
- 106 Harehills Park Infants Play Area2.0 mi
- 107 Clarkesfield Allotments2.0 mi
- 108 Harehills Park community orchard2.0 mi
- 109 Armley Park2.0 mi
- 110 Armley Moor2.1 mi
- 111 Headingley Community Orchard2.2 mi
- 112 Grove Lane Nature Area2.2 mi
- 113 Rose Garden2.2 mi
- 114 Little Moor2.2 mi
- 115 Meanwood community centre- orchard2.2 mi
- 116 Thwaite Mills Community Orchard2.2 mi
- 117 Western Flatts Cliff Park Community Orchard2.2 mi
- 118 Chapel Allerton Community Orchard2.2 mi
- 119 Halton Recreation Ground2.3 mi
- 120 Western Flatts Cliff Park2.3 mi
- 121 Monk Bridge Green2.3 mi
- 122 The Bowery2.3 mi
- 123 Skelton Grange Orchard2.3 mi
- 124 Denbigh Approach Community Orchard2.4 mi
- 125 Kirkstall Valley Nature Reserve2.4 mi
- 126 ALO Community Garden2.4 mi
- 127 Western Flatts Cliff Park2.4 mi
- 128 Beeston Junction community orchard2.4 mi
- 129 Chapel Allerton Park2.5 mi
- 130 Charlie Cake Park2.5 mi
- 131 Kirkstall Nature Reserve Community Orchard2.5 mi
- 132 Gotts Park Rose Garden2.5 mi
- 133 Sandford Playground2.5 mi
- 134 Beecroft Street Community Orchard2.5 mi
- 135 Circle of Colour2.6 mi
- 136 Allerton Grange Park2.6 mi
- 137 Killingbeck Fields2.6 mi
- 138 St Stephen's Well Community Garden2.6 mi
- 139 Kirkstall Wildflower Garden2.6 mi
- 140 Killingbeck Fields2.6 mi
- 141 Sutton Park2.6 mi
- 142 Killingbeck Community Orchard2.6 mi
- 143 Headingley Community Orchard2.7 mi
- 144 Beckett Park2.7 mi
- 145 Cottingley community orchard2.7 mi
- 146 Drink and Be Grateful Fountain Garden2.7 mi
- 147 Chandos Park2.7 mi
- 148 Meanwood Park2.7 mi
- 149 Killingbeck MUGA2.7 mi
- 150 Cedar/Ash POS2.8 mi
- 151 Middleton Park2.8 mi
- 152 The Acre2.8 mi
- 153 Larkhill Green2.9 mi
- 154 Hollybush community orchard2.9 mi
- 155 Parkside Road community orchard3.0 mi
- 156 Arthur's Rein3.0 mi
- 157 Grove Road Rec3.0 mi
- 158 Primrose Valley Park3.0 mi
- 159 Kirkstall Abbey Community Orchard3.0 mi
- 160 LILAC3.0 mi
- 161 Rose Garden3.0 mi
- 162 WykeBeck Woods3.1 mi
- 163 National Plant Collections of Philadelphus and Deutzia3.1 mi
- 164 Kirkstall Abbey Park3.1 mi
- 165 Victoria Park Garden3.1 mi
- 166 Lidgett Park3.1 mi
- 167 Primrose Hill Community Orchard3.1 mi
- 168 Allerton Grange Fields3.1 mi
- 169 Farnley Village Green3.1 mi
- 170 West Park Fields Community Orchard3.1 mi
- 171 Churwell Park3.1 mi
- 172 Allerton Grange Fields Community Orchard3.2 mi
- 173 Potts Park3.2 mi
- 174 Talbot Fold Community Gardens3.2 mi
- 175 Lawns Park3.2 mi
- 176 Broadlee community orchard3.2 mi
- 177 Lakeside Playground3.2 mi
- 178 West Park Field3.3 mi
- 179 Farnley Hall Fish Pond Local Nature Reserve3.3 mi
- 180 Canal Gardens3.3 mi
- 181 St Georges Park3.3 mi
- 182 Moortown Park3.4 mi
- 183 Leeds Corinthians Rugby Union Football Club3.4 mi
- 184 Farnley Hall Park3.4 mi
- 185 Rein Park3.5 mi
- 186 Roundhay Park3.5 mi
- 187 Moorside community Garden3.6 mi
- 188 Cranmer Recreation ground3.6 mi
- 189 Temple Newsam Estate3.7 mi
- 190 Phys-Cap Playground3.7 mi
- 191 Seacroft Village Green3.7 mi
- 192 The East Lawn3.7 mi
- 193 Treetops3.8 mi
- 194 King George V Gardens3.8 mi
- 195 The Bumps3.8 mi
- 196 Information board for Rothwell Country Park3.8 mi
- 197 Manor Park3.8 mi
- 198 Springfield Mill Park3.8 mi
- 199 Temple Newsam Park3.9 mi
- 200 Walled Garden3.9 mi
- 201 Little Bees Play and Party3.9 mi
- 202 Maid Marian Orchard, Copley Lane3.9 mi
- 203 Hopefield Park3.9 mi
- 204 Troydale Memorial Garden3.9 mi
- 205 Rothwell Country Park4.0 mi
- 206 Northfield Rec4.0 mi
- 207 Ninja Warrior UK4.0 mi
- 208 Bramley Park4.0 mi
- 209 Rothwell Park Community Orchard4.0 mi
- 210 Mill Green4.0 mi
- 211 Mill Green Close4.1 mi
- 212 Wigton Moor Woods4.1 mi
- 213 Wigton Moor Community Orchard4.1 mi
- 214 Lewisham Park4.1 mi
- 215 Rothwell Pastures4.1 mi
- 216 Hawthron Park4.2 mi
- 217 Manston Park4.2 mi
- 218 Alwoodley Village Green4.2 mi
- 219 Jubilee playground4.2 mi
- 220 Wigton Moor Rec4.2 mi
- 221 Bluetin Park4.2 mi
- 222 St. Lukes Community Garden and Orchard4.2 mi
- 223 Middlethorne Park4.3 mi
- 224 Scatcherd Park4.3 mi
- 225 Sledmere Green4.3 mi
- 226 Litton Way Play Area4.3 mi
- 227 Naburn Rec4.4 mi
- 228 Slaid Hill Field4.4 mi
- 229 Green Park4.5 mi
- 230 Carlton Village Green4.5 mi
- 231 Springhead Park4.5 mi
- 232 Pennwell Pocket Park4.5 mi
- 233 Mead Park4.5 mi
- 234 Rodley Nature Reserve4.5 mi
- 235 Lower Village Green4.5 mi
- 236 Broadfields Community Orchard4.5 mi
- 237 Grimes Dyke4.6 mi
- 238 Featherbank Lane Community Orchard4.6 mi
- 239 Manager's Garden4.6 mi
- 240 Carlton Park4.6 mi
- 241 Hornbeam Way Park4.6 mi
- 242 King George Road Community Orchard4.7 mi
- 243 Hembrigg Park4.7 mi
- 244 Skelton Wood Community Orchard4.7 mi
- 245 Holywell Lane4.7 mi
- 246 Dartmouth Park community Orchard4.8 mi
- 247 Jigsaw Juniors4.8 mi
- 248 Central Park4.8 mi
- 249 Dartmouth Park4.9 mi
- 250 Horsforth Peace Park4.9 mi
- 251 Horsforth Museum4.9 mi
- 252 Horsforth War Memorial Garden4.9 mi
- 253 Country Park4.9 mi
- 254 Woodlesford Park4.9 mi
- 255 Spring Lane Sidings, Orchard5.0 mi
- 256 Horsforth Hall Park5.0 mi
- 257 Ouzlewell Orchard5.0 mi
- 258 Skelton Hall Farm5.1 mi
- 259 Hesketh Lane Community orchard5.1 mi
- 260 Horsforth Community Garden5.1 mi
- 261 Adel Dam Nature Reserve5.1 mi
- 262 Japanese Garden5.1 mi
- 263 Water Haigh Woodland Park5.1 mi
- 264 Bramley Grange5.2 mi
- 265 Lofthouse Millenium Green5.2 mi
- 266 Scholes Community Orchard5.2 mi
- 267 Lofthouse Colliery Nature Park5.4 mi
- 268 Heather Garden5.4 mi
- 269 Breary Marsh Local Nature Reserve5.4 mi
- 270 Golden Acre Park5.4 mi
- 271 Gair Wood5.4 mi
- 272 The Grove5.5 mi
- 273 Swillington park5.5 mi
- 274 Garforth Bridge5.7 mi
- 275 Riding's Way Park5.8 mi
- 276 Sun Pub playground5.9 mi
- 277 Outwood Park6.2 mi
- 278 RSPB St Aidan's6.4 mi
- 279 Jack Heaps6.5 mi
- 280 Barwick in Elmet Community Orchard6.6 mi
- 281 Hedleys AFC6.6 mi
- 282 Hedley Park Play Area6.6 mi
- 283 Walled Garden6.6 mi
- 284 Kidzone6.7 mi
- 285 Harewood Park6.7 mi
- 286 Bramhope Playground6.7 mi
- 287 The Knoll6.7 mi
- 288 Glebelands Recreation Ground6.8 mi
- 289 Garforth Community Wildlife Area6.8 mi
- 290 Stanley Marsh Nature Reserve6.8 mi
- 291 Himalayan Garden6.8 mi
- 292 Harewood Playground6.8 mi
- 293 Monkey Maze6.9 mi
- 294 Batley Memorial Park6.9 mi
- 295 McDonald's PlayPlace7.1 mi
- 296 Woodlands7.2 mi
- 297 Mental Health Muesum7.2 mi
- 298 Wrenthorpe Park & Alverthorpe Meadows7.3 mi
- 299 Yanki Doodlz Play Zone and Diner7.3 mi
- 300 Alverthorpe & Wrenthorpe Meadows LNR7.4 mi
- 301 Kids About Tarn7.4 mi
- 302 Bardsey Fields7.4 mi
- 303 South Milford Park12.0 mi
Good to know
How many free things to do are there in Leeds?
This page lists 303 free things to do mapped in and around Leeds, including Horsforth Museum. Each entry shows its location and, where available, contact details.
Are any of the free things to do near Leeds free?
Yes — 303 of the places listed for Leeds are free to visit, marked with a "Free entry" tag in the list above.
What is there to do at free things to do near Leeds?
Expect attractions with free entry. Exactly what is on offer differs between venues, so checking ages, facilities and any booking requirements with the venue before travelling is recommended.
How are the distances to each place measured?
Distances are approximate, measured in a straight line from the centre of Leeds. The list is ordered nearest-first, and a few entries may be in adjoining towns where they are the closest option for Leeds.