Burmantofts is an area of 1960s high-rise housing blocks in inner-city east
Leeds,
West Yorkshire, England adjacent to the city centre and
St. James's Hospital. It is a racially diverse area, with sizable Afro-Caribbean, Irish communities and Asylum Seekers, but suffers the social problems typical of similar areas across the country. The area has a small selection of
pubs and the Anglers Club on Nippet Lane. Burmantofts is perhaps most notable for
Burmantofts Pottery and the former
Burtons textile factory, which is still owned by Burtons, but only used as a storage facility. In the 1900s and early twentieth century, Burmantofts was a large centre of the textile industry.