Directions to Wakefield Bridge Club at Thornes Park - Maps and photos - July 2021 Bridge Club Bridge Car Park entrance - Park Thornes 1 Directions to Wakefield Bridge Club at Thornes Park - Maps and photos - July 2021 The postal address is Penny Appeal Campus (formerly Wakefield College), Thornes Park, WF2 8QZ The what3words /// address is flank.inspector.waving - find the what3words app on your smart phone. The picture above shows the entrance to the park from Horbury Road, driving away from Wakefield. Note the pedestrian crossing with lights - if you reach that, you have gone too far. The picture below shows the entrance to the park from Horbury Road, driving towards Wakefield. The light blue car on the right is just leaving the park; Domino’s Pizza is on the left. Signal to turn right as you approach the pedestrian crossing. 2 Directions to Wakefield Bridge Club at Thornes Park - Maps and photos - July 2021 The entrance to the park, above. Keep going past the car park and the stadium, below. Keep going up the hill past the skateboard park, which is on the right here. 3 Directions to Wakefield Bridge Club at Thornes Park - Maps and photos - July 2021 As you approach these two buildings, prepare to turn right into the car park. Car Park Turn into the car park, and park up where you see these cars. Take the ramp up to the left beyond the large building. Ramp up Do not be put off by the Private Car Park sign. This is for both the Gym Club and the Bridge Club, and the notice helps protect the site from travellers. Members should all normally use this car park. There is a gently-sloping ramp up from the car park to our building on the top level of the park. Disabled members should not turn into this car park - but instead, continue on up the hill for a few yards until they approach the main building. 4 Directions to Wakefield Bridge Club at Thornes Park - Maps and photos - July 2021 Disabled members may park in the small car park where the cars are visible in this picture and in the one below. Ramp down Our playing rooms are marked by the red outline. The entrance to those rooms is in the small passageway just to the right of the red outline - it leads through the building to the central ‘courtyard’ which also has a small parking space. The ramp goes down to the main car park. The pictures on the next two pages show aerial views of the whole site. 5 Directions to Wakefield Bridge Club at Thornes Park - Maps and photos - July 2021 Road up from Road up park entrance park Main car park Main to Ramp top level top Central Central courtyard car park club Disabled Disabled Bridge Bridge 6 Directions to Wakefield Bridge Club at Thornes Park - Maps and photos - July 2021 Disabled Bridge car park club Road up from park entrance Main car park Thornes park offers 60 hectares of open space to explore and enjoy including a two-mile circular path that follows the boundary of the park - and if this is not challenging enough there are several exercise stations on the route. There is a mound in the centre of the park which was once the site of a motte and bailey castle and now provides spectacular views of Wakefield. The park hosts a model railway, formal gardens, a lake, an indoor leisure centre, a skateboard park and an athletics track. Clarence Park and Holmfield Park adjoin Thornes Park and extend the leisure area further. Please note that the Holmfield Arms hotel and restaurant (Premier Inn) has a separate drive running from the east side off Denby Dale Road, and this is not accessible by car from within the park. This building was known earlier as Holmfield House - the bridge club played there until 1991, when we moved to Wakefield Town Hall. Three years later we moved again, to the West Yorkshire Sports & Social Club in Sandal, and in 2021 we have moved ‘back’ to Thornes Park. 7 .