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Walk around St Aidan’s Nature Park
October 30, 2022 @ 11:00
The circular walk has amazing views and wonderful wildlife including bitterns, avocets, black terns, skylarks and meadow pipits.
The nature reserve is open from 10am-5pm, 1 March-31 October.
By bus
Please meet at 11:00 am at Leeds Bus Station where the Travel Information Centre is located. The bus leave from Stand C outside the bus station to the left.
Buses run to Allerton Bywater from Leeds City Centre and Castleford (bus service 168). The nearest bus stop is Bowers Row stop number 45010157. This is 0.2 miles from the visitor centre.
By road
Leave the M1 at junction 46 towards Garforth follow the Selby Road/A63, turn right at the roundabout onto A642, turn left after 1.4 miles onto Astley Lane, the reserve is on the right after 1.5 miles.
We will be meeting at 11:45 am at the reserve’s car park.
Car park is open from 6am to 8pm
There are no entry fees to the nature reserve, but the following parking charges apply:
- RSPB members: FREE
(please display your membership card face down in your windscreen) - Non-members: £4 per vehicle
- Blue badge holders: FREE
(please display your badge in your windscreen)
The suggested poetry theme is ‘Nature’. After the walk there will be an optional visit to the café at the entrance of the reserve which will be open from 10am-4.30pm.
Please wear appropriate cloths (see weather forecast) and take some lunch with you. There are benches all along the way where we will be able to stop for lunch and poetry.