Amenities
Armley Town Street includes two high street names, charity shops and food and independent retailers. There are bus links to Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield. Armley's Town Street has free off-road car parking, but parking is mainly on-street, with few car parks in the centre. Armley's only supermarket is a Co-operative on Town Street, neighbouring Wortley has a Asda, and Bramley has Tesco, Morrisons and Farmfoods. Towards Farnley there is a Sainsburys. Pudsey used to have a Kwiksave, where Sainsburys now exists; a previous Somerfield is now a Co-operative. Leeds city centre had only one supermarket, Morrisons. There are now five in the city centre and the railway station.
Other amenities include Armley (Gott's) Park, Gott's Park Golf Club and Armley Mills Industrial Museum, and numerous former cinemas and churches. The old Methodist chapel which is now a carpet outlet. A similar chapel in Holbeck is also a carpet shop.
Armley's original leisure centre, based on the old Armley swimming baths, was demolished in 2009. The land is now a large car park for the new leisure centre. The closure of the original 25-metre swimming pool with redundant and unused space attracted some controversy because of the age and local architectural significance of the building. The new centre has state-of-the-art equipment. Morley and Beeston will also receive new leisure centres under a programme being run by Leeds City Council.
HM Prison Leeds, formerly Armley Gaol ("Armley Jail"), is located at Gloucester Terrace, Armley.
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