Lofthouse is a village between the cities of Wakefield and Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.^[1] The village falls within the Ardsley and Robin Hood ward of the City of Leeds Council. It is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough but with a Wakefield postal address (WF3). It is mentioned as Locthuse, also as Loftose in the 1086 Domesday Book.^[2]

Lofthouse
Christ Church, Lofthouse
Lofthouse Show map of Leeds Lofthouse Location within West Yorkshire Show map of West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE332257
Metropolitan borough	City of Leeds
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WAKEFIELD
Postcode district	WF3
Dialling code	01924
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°43′36″N 1°29′54″W / 53.72665°N 1.49829°W / 53.72665; -1.49829

Lofthouse has good road connections to its nearby boroughs as well as to the rest of Northern England. It can be found on the main A61 Leeds-Wakefield road and off junction 29 of the M62 and junction 42 of the M1, known locally as the Lofthouse interchange. Lofthouse Gate and Outwood are neighbouring villages on the A61 towards Wakefield and are in the Wakefield Metropolitan Area. Towards Leeds there is the village of Robin Hood.

There are two churches, Christ Church (Church of England) and Lofthouse Methodist Church,^[3] a doctor's surgery ^[4] and the Rodillian Academy. Lofthouse Children's Centre ^[5] is located in the Rodillian Academy grounds.^[6] The old co-operative building, just off the main A61 on Co-operative Street, is now occupied by Chill Beauty. ^[7]

Lofthouse is often erroneously believed to be the scene of the Lofthouse Colliery disaster, which took place in 1973. The disaster actually took place beneath a field near the village of Kirkhamgate, where a new coalface was being worked.