Bus

"In 1838 a group of Headingley residents got together to form a company to fund a horse-drawn omnibus between the village and the town on a regular basis ... It was the first suburban bus service in Leeds (Headingley still has the number 1 bus)."
(Eveleigh Bradford, Headingley, 2008)

Visit Headingley

By Bus: From Leeds Railway Station, catch no24 bus northbound, or from Leeds Bus Station, catch service 22, 23, 25, 26, 27 or 28; these routes merge on Albion Street (by St John Centre), and thence run directly to Headingley.
Service 56 also stops on Albion Street, and runs indirectly to Headingley Stadium.

Routes

Services to 26 October 2024
1 Beeston - Leeds - Headingley - Lawnswood School
6 Leeds - Headingley - Cookridge - Holt Park
8 Leeds - Headingley - Lawnswood - Holt Park
27 Leeds - Headingley - Horsforth - Guiseley
28 Leeds - Headingley - Adel
X84 Leeds - Headingley - Otley - Ilkley
outbound, boarding only in Headingley
inbound, alighting only in Headingley

Service changes from 27 October 2024
22 Leeds - Headingley - Headingley Campus
23 Leeds - Headingley - Cookridge - Holt Park
24 Beeston – Leeds – Headingley – Holt Park
25 Leeds - Headingley - Pool - Otley - Ilkley
26 Leeds - Headingley - Otley - Ilkley
27 Leeds - Headingley - Horsforth - Guiseley
28 Leeds - Headingley - Adel

More info here.

Services unchanged
19 Garforth - Leeds - Headingley Stadium - Ireland Wood
19A Garforth - Leeds - Headingley Stadium - Tinshill
56 Whinmoor - Leeds - Headingley Stadium - Moor Grange

91 Pudsey - Kirkstall - Headingley - Harehills - Halton Moor

With a cloth ear for historical significance (and without any public consultation), the private company running local bus services has ignored two centuries of pioneering public transport along Headingley Lane & Otley Road (see Suburban Omnibus below), and renumbered the Number One service; accidentally (and ironically) the new number, 24, commemorates the year (2024) when this historical vandalism was perpetrated.

Ride

Bus Service 25 or 26: from Headingley, the bus crosses the watershed from Airedale, through Bramhope, to Wharfedale; it runs to Otley, through Pool and beside the Wharfe (25), or along the slopes of Chevin Forest Park, with views of Lower Wharfedale (and North York Moors, on a clear day) (26); thence, the bus runs beside the Wharfe, to Ilkley. Change to 784, and continue by Addingham, with views of Ilkley Moor, and from there, below Skipton Moor, with views towards Upper Wharfedale, on to Skipton.
’One of the best bus rides in Britain!’