Explore Woodlesford Lock

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Explore Woodlesford Lock Located just five miles from Leeds, Woodlesford Lock on the Aire & Calder Navigation, is one of the best Thwaite Mills Fishponds Lock places to escape the city and enjoy Museum country walks. & Leeds

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Map not to scale: covers approx 0.5 miles/0.8km A little bit of history The Aire & Calder Navigation was built to connect Leeds to the Humber and the North Sea. Unique to this navigation were ‘Tom Puddings’, huge open containers for carrying coal, linked together and pushed along by tugs. The waterway still carries commercial traffic but Best of all today, it makes its way through peaceful countryside. it’s FREE!* ve thi Fi ngs to d o at Wood Picnic Pack binoculars and trackl edownsfor exoticd wooden Information wildlife such as elephant, antelope, giraffe, Lgorilla,ock deer Woodlesford Lock and the very rare Gruffalo! Woodlesford Use the bird screen to watch a huge variety of bird West Yorkshire life. Look out for sand martins on the riverbank, the LS26 8PU blue flash of a kingfisher or spot a forked-tailed red kite circling in the sky. Parking (free & Visit Thwaite Mills, a water-powered mill which at P&D) various times milled rape oil for lubrication and Toilets (in hotel, lighting, and crushed wood for dyes and whiting for pubs and cafés household products in village) Keep a look about for working boats and barges Café Take a walk. There’s a circular walk to Fishponds Lock (1.75 miles), or a towpath walk to Lemonroyd Lock Pub (1.5 miles), or try part of the Leeds Country Way, a 62- Picnic bench mile long circular walk divided into 4-6 mile sections. Path

Allow 2 hours What to Spot for this visit Explore the waterside together. * Don’t forget: How many of these can you spot? Although the site is always A duck quacking open the facilities and boat trips may not be and some may be chargeable. Please check with local businesses before setting out. The number of a  A fascinating insect  bridge or lock 

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