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Where: Circular walk around Leeds’ Civic Hall and Canal, but you can gain Sweet Street West. Turn L into on to Boar Lane and follow it until canal. access to the Dark Arches from the Bath Road and R where it meets you come to Park Row. hy: DES GARRAHA N Photogra p hy: Start/End: Leeds Town towpath. At the end of the tunnel with Water Lane. Retrace your Hall (SE297338). Leeds was once famously 1. Start Begin your walk with turn R to exit by the side of the steps for a short distance and then 6. Turn R and go up Park Row. Terrain: Mostly level described by Charles Dickens as your back to Leeds . canal. Go across the courtyard and turn L on to Globe Road. Cross Headrow and continue up roadside pavements and ‘one of the beastliest places in Before crossing Headrow and exit via the footbridge, which to the Leeds City towpaths, with some steps England’. Well, he would hardly going down Park Cross, take a takes you to Little Neville Street. 4. Continue down Globe Road Museum on your R. Established to negotiate. recognise the place these days. moment to enjoy Cuthbert Turn R into Neville Street and cross until it meets Whitehall Road. as the Mechanics Institute in 1819 Maps: OS Explorer 289; The West Yorkshire has Brodrick’s marvellous Victorian Victoria Bridge. Cross over this road and turn L to by the Leeds Philosophical and Landranger 104 (A to Z Leeds undergone a great transformation civic building, built in 1858. Turn L take you down to the towpath Literary Society, this Cuthbert and Bradford is best, though). in the last two decades. Back at along St Paul’s Street, cross East 2. Turn R along Water Lane and along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. Brodrick creation was re-opened Getting there: Leeds is the beginning of the Industrial Parade and go along the length of then L into Marshall Street just in 2008 as a free-to-enter museum. well served by national rail Revolution in the mid-1700s, Infirmary Street. Crossing Park past David Street. You’ll pass 5. Walk along the canal with the and coach services. The train Leeds had a small but well Row, you turn R and continue Marshall Mills on your right, built water to your R. Where the canal 7. Cross the road and walk around station is on Neville Street, established woollen industry down to Bishopgate Street. Cross by John Marshall, who was born meets the River Aire at Lock 1, the back of the , half a mile from the start. centred around . What Bishopgate and turn R down at 1 Briggate in 1765. The six- turn L and then R to cross the turning L along Portland Crescent. Eating & drinking: The really acted as the catalyst for Neville Street, which goes under storey water-powered mill used water. At Neville Street continue Turn L on to Portland Way and Hop pub under the Dark Leeds’ transformation from town Leeds station’s railway tracks. Just water drawn from the nearby Hol straight, with the river on your R. then L again on to Calverley Street. Arches on Dark Neville to city was mechanised flax before you exit the underpass, Beck to spin yarn. Just past the site On the skyline to your R you can Turn R on to Great George Street Street is an atmospheric spinning. John Marshall’s success, turn R into The Granary Wharf is (or Mill). Also see the famous Tetley’s Brewery to walk in front of Leeds Infirmary. place for a pitstop pint in collaboration with Matthew Arches, which are further under built by John Marshall, it was sign. Before you turn L at Leeds The first hospital, known as the ✆ ( 0113 243 9854). Murray, encouraged others to the station. In 1864, the building based on the Temple of Horus at Bridge to cross the river, note the , was built Sleeping: The Discovery build ‘the dark Satanic mills’ that of a ‘New Station’ in Leeds was , with a chimney designed in blue plaque commemorating Louis in 1771. Construction of the current Inn on Bishopgate Street is flourished in Dickens’ Victorian era. proposed. Construction began the style of an obelisk. Largely Le Prince. Considered by many to hospital on Great George Street an affordable choice and These buildings, which brought in 1866 and was completed in derelict, Temple Works is the only be the true father of motion began in 1863, to the designs of Sir right next to the station such prosperity to the city, can be 1869, built on arches that span the Grade I-listed building in . pictures, in October 1888 Le Prince . ✆ ( 01843 585179, www. seen on Marshall Street. In the River Aire, Neville Street and filmed moving picture sequences comfortinnleeds.co.uk). 1920s, Leeds began upgrading its Swinegate. It led to the creation 3. Continue to the end of Marshall on Leeds Bridge using his single- 8. From here, turn L on to Park Visitor information: inadequate civic buildings, and of the ‘Dark Arches’ over Neville Street and turn R on to Nineveh lens camera and Eastman’s paper Street and then L again to bring Leeds Visitor Centre, The the impressively grand results can Street. The station is situated next Street. Then turn R into Bridge film. Continue ahead along Bridge you back to . ▲ be seen around Headrow. to the terminus of the Leeds and Road and take the first R into End, which joins Briggate. Turn L Route devised by Des Garrahan