Seacroft is an outer-city suburb/township consisting mainly of council estate housing covering an extensive area of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

The name is often used as a catch-all for Seacroft and the neighbouring areas of Whinmoor and Swarcliffe, other large east Leeds council estates which merge into each other.

The second element, added after Brittonic ceased to be understood in the region is the English word wood, making the name tautological in meaning.

John Wesley preached on The Green, and as a result a Wesleyan Chapel (Methodist Church) was built close by.

Seacroft Hall was built in the 17th century by the Shiletto family incorporating extensive landscaping and parkland.

The original entrance lodge still stands on York Road, with Parklands School on South Parkway now occupying the location of the hall.

[12] The building included a celebrated late 17th century staircase thought to have been brought from Austhorpe Hall.

As such amenities were kept to a minimum in Swarcliffe and Whinmoor, with the estates only having small local shops, public houses and primary schools.

Seacroft also has the main central bus interchange for North East Leeds, although the nearest railway station is in Cross Gates.

The Civic Centre had a Grandways supermarket and a Woolworths Group as well as many other smaller shops, banks, pubs and a library.

Talks were held with Leeds City Council, and Tesco were found as the preferred bidder to rebuild the Seacroft Civic Centre.

In 1999, work began clearing the site and in 2000 the new Seacroft Green Shopping Centre opened.

The car park was also enlarged and other shop units were built along the side of the supermarket, making the centre a crescent shape.

The huge supermarket as well as the other shops promised to create hundreds more jobs then would be lost through the loss of trade in the Civic Centre, which among other factors made the redevelopment favourable with many Seacroft residents.

Until the building of the new centre, and since the closure of Grandways, it was said that Seacroft suffered from 'food poverty' and fresh produce could not be bought on the estate.

The estate's high rise flats are seen as a refuge as they are harder to break into and in better condition than the houses, as such they have largely been allocated to older residents.

Regular bus services allow residents to use amenities in Leeds city centre, Cross Gates and Wetherby.

The older council houses were generally built to a higher quality and are still in good condition.

Notable former pupils include Andrew Edge (musician), David Harvey (footballer) and Ellery Hanley (rugby league player).

Many other Leeds radio stations can be received, but ChapelFM deals specifically with Seacroft and surrounding areas.

A large portion of the housing is council owned, and the few jobs tend to be low paid casual or manual work.

This is due to a multimillion-pound city re-development scheme whose earlier progress can be seen in the similar estates around the Coal Road area.

Their service 49 serves the Monkswood Gate area in the north of Seacroft, but not the bus station.

[35] The closest railway station is Cross Gates, with services operating to Leeds, Garforth, Bradford Interchange, Halifax, York, Hull and Scarborough.

The project started in summer 2018 and is set to build a new 7.5-kilometre (4.7 mi) route linking the orbital Ring Road (A6120) at Red Hall to the A58, the A64 and Leeds Road to connect with Thorpe Park at Junction 46 of the M1, set to be complete by summer 2023 with enhancement finished by autumn 2023.

It is intended to ease congestion in existing residential areas like Cross Gates, Seacroft and Whitkirk, and will also play a key role in the growth plans for the city for years to come.