Saturday Walk: Easier category:- Kirkstall Forge Railway Station into Leeds c 6.5 to 7.5 miles

The walk will start from the free parking at the Kirkstall Forge Railway Station at 9:30 am.  

The walk is very flat and is on a good path at the side of the Leeds and Liverpool canal. The main hazard on this walk are all the cyclists who also have a right of way on this route. The walkers have priority but in practice it tends not to work like that! There certainly won’t be the usual livestock to worry about on this walk.

We’ll walk into Leeds from Kirkstall Forge station. I’m going to do a slight diversion off Whitehall Road to show you the Leeds equivalent of the High Line in New York – where they created a garden on a disused railway viaduct. 

Then we’ll head to the Adelphi Pub for an early lunch/brunch. After that we’ll walk on to the Armouries area and maybe pick up a cuppa there before heading back to the Leeds Railway station for the train back to Kirkstall. The total distance we will walk is uncertain. The distance from the Kirkstall station to the Armouries and then back to Leeds station is 6.4 miles, so it depends on how much wandering around that we do.

A single ticket on the train is £2.00, without a railcard or £1.30 with. You could buy a single from a machine at the station or buy it on your app once we know which train we’ll be getting back. Trains are at 12 and 42 minutes past the hour. The journey back takes 6 minutes.