wrag

What it is
Ahhh... Woodhouse Ridge... On the eastern flank of Headingley Hill in Leeds with glimpsed views over the Meanwood Valley.....

Where lean back-to-back terraces and plump Victorian villas abut ancient woodland ....  an encapsulated urban woodland ..... a palimpsest of a long-faded Edwardian pleasure garden....a civil war battlefield..... a little piece of the old wilde woode

A link in the Meanwood Valley Trail leading to open country at Adel  ....... The first leg on the Dales Way long distance footpath to Bowness on Windermere in the Lake District  ........

A wonderful playground for walkers, joggers, strollers,  lovers, cyclists, and horseriders  - kids too, ....a tobogganing slope ....... and a wildlife haven...  

And a Doorstep Green to many inner city communities.

Usually we meet at the end of  Ridge Terrace,  by the bollarded track into the woods.

Where it is
About 1½ miles north of the city centre, on the hillside west of the Meanwood Road, extending between Woodhouse Street and Grove Lane.

Click here for an interactive aerial photo / location map* of the Ridge Woodland  - and wonder at its very survival as a green space (Clue: its pretty steep....)

*Courtesy of Google Maps ©