To discover more about any of the stops on this trail, click on any title to be redirected to a longer article elsewhere on this blog. You can follow the trail from home, by reading the articles in the order listed below (you could even use Google Street View, if you wanted to follow the exact steps)…
A digital copy of the trail map is also available
Start at…
Leave the park along Park Square East heading towards The Headrow and the Leeds Central Library where you will find Victoria Gardens…
Continue along Calverley Street, crossing Great George Street into Mandela Gardens…
Head up Great George Street towards Upper Briggate, once past St John’s Centre you will find on your right the Merrion Gardens of Rest…
Leave the Gardens by the rear gates and head into the grounds of St John’s Church…
Exit the graveyard of St John’s Church using the stepped archway down onto Upper Briggate, turn right and then left on to the Headrow. Follow the road onto Eastgate, and down to the Playhouse Gardens…
Walk along St Peter’s St towards the viaduct, on your left you will pass a small garden at St Peter’s Square with a sculpture by artist Walter Jack of a stainless steel theatre curtain representing the performing arts present in this area. Cross over towards York Street and opposite you will see the first part of Penny Pocket Park…
Once you have explored both sides of Penny Pocket Park cross over Kirkgate and heading into the Grounds of the Leeds Minister of St Peter’s…
Cross the graveyard and exit onto The Calls, turning right. When you reach Centenary Bridge, on the left cross over the River Aire and, at the end of the bridge, take an immediate right down onto the waterfront edge; follow this path until you reach the water gardens at Navigation Walk…
Follow Navigation walk out onto Dock Street, turn right and head towards Bridge End, cross the Leeds Bridge and take a left onto Swinegate, and then your second left onto Sovereign Street…
Next, exit Sovereign Street at the far end onto Neville Street – and head north, joining Bishopgate Street at the top of Neville Street and turning left onto City Square. Keeping the Queens Hotel on your left walk along Wellington Street and go left at Northern Street, at the end of here take a right onto Whitehall Road and walk until you find Tower Square…
You have now reached the end of our Hidden Nature Heritage Trail – but that is not all there is to the natural beauty of the city as a whole. If you fancy walking that little bit further out of the City Centre, we have some suggestions in a bonus article…
The Secret Library | Leeds Libraries Heritage Blog 