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Coordinates: 53°49′36″N 1°41′27″W / 53.8266°N 1.6908°W / 53.8266; -1.6908
Calverley is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, on the A657 road, midway between Leeds city centre and Bradford.
In the 1086 Domesday Book, Calverley is listed as "Caverleia".
Calverley is a rural village with a medieval manor house, Calverley Old Hall which was home to the Calverley family. Houses in the village are mostly constructed of sandstone, darkened by the soot of the Industrial Revolution, though there are brick buildings to the south of the original village. The Anglican parish church St Wilfrid's has parts dating from the 11th or 12th century. The tower was added and increased in the 13th to 15th century. There is a Methodist church dating from 1872, beside Victoria Park, a recreation ground which is home to Calverley St Wilfrid's Cricket Club. Both churches are Grade II listed buildings. There are two golf courses to the south of the village, Woodhall Hills (established 1905) off Woodhall Road, and Calverley Golf Club off Woodhall Lane.