Exploring - Going the strange way to Leeds

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Leeds was my commute, and I still like cycling there from home but it can get a bit dull doing the same route. I haven't cycled on the Leeds/Liverpool canal for a while so I thought I'd do a strange North/East trip to Leeds. Came back on the CityConnect cycle route which is as awful as ever lol

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This is Woodhall Woods in Calverly, it really wasn't suitable for my bike (one local had a good laugh as I rattled by!) but it was very pretty and a hidden gem. Not all of Bradford is a poohole apparently!

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I did take more of the LL Canal but they havent come out, this is almost in the city centre. Theres a big housing estate just been built behind me, perfect for a stroll down the canal into Leeds.

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Bridge Inn in Kirkstall. A Kirkstall Brewary pub the beer garden I am in regularly floods and they have built some quite impressive defenses against it. The bottom bar is also now open, I need to go back to try their sunday roasts.

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An ugly pretty picture, the dual carriageway is one of the most badly driven roads in Britain but I did like the sunset. A little further on 2 horse and traps were been driven(?) badly and holding up traffic. Bit of speed saw me past with some local humour being shouted at me!

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Low Moor Munitions 1916 Explosion Memorial. The site is now landfill but there is at least these reminders for us.

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It goes dark quickly! I left Leeds in daylight and it was pitch by the time I got home. Very quiet ride on the greenway home.

About a 45 mile round trip, I'd got up late and nearly didn't go out but glad I did. :okay:
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Did you see the local postmen?
 
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wiggydiggy

wiggydiggy

Guru
The building with the postbox is not a railway building, but was probably connected to the quarries that used to work the area.

There is a branch line that runs nearby, and you cross under a dismantled bridge further back uphill from the house.

http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Laisterdyke Shipley.htm
 
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