Retirement Properties Spotlight in Garforth

Garforth was mentioned in Domesday as Gereford and had a church and is about five miles east of Leeds. The Saxons settled here and in the church are fragments of a Saxon cross. Its name seems to derive from 'Geara's ford or possibly 'ford at the triangular plot of land'. In the nineteenth century it was very much a coal mining town.

Leeds is an old settlement lying in the valley of the river Aire about 185 miles north of London and was mentioned as Ledes in Domesday and had a mill and a church. Its name probably derives from 'people living by the strongly flowing river'. Today is a modern vibrant city with many attractions including the Royal Armouries Museum, the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds City Art Gallery housing major 19th-20th century British paintings. The town has a long history and in a Victorian parish church a fragment of an Anglo-Saxon cross can be seen.