Kirkstall Abbey
The car park for the Abbey is on the opposite side of the carriageway, but the park is also located right next to the car park and with a mass of green open space it’s a great location for a kick around with the kids and a picnic for lunch.
When you cross over the road to the Abbey, you are again greeted with beautiful green open surroundings and walking through with the abbey towering above, it’s an impressive building. During the months of April to November, there is a food and drink market in The Cloisters, where you can get great food to eat or take home.
In February 2017 we walked down to Kirkstall Abbey from further up Broad Lane, which is quite a steep hill, downhill on the way there, uphill on the return journey. On the way to the abbey you walk past the new Kirkstall Bridge Retail Park and enter the abbey off Bridge Road. The paths are newly tarmacked, although not very wide and muddy at the edges, but nice and smooth for pushchairs and wheelchairs. There’s a wooden bridge to go over, before you can finally start to see the abbey and an impressive view from the opposite side to what we had seen before.
Following the path you can walk down the side of the abbey and the path will take you away from the abbey, we cut through into a square garden area and before heading back towards the abbey and down the other side and arrived back to where we first started.
he whole route took us about 1 hour 15 minutes, so a gentle stroll just around the abbey itself, will take you about 45 minutes.
When you cross over the road to the Abbey, you are again greeted with beautiful green open surroundings and walking through with the abbey towering above, it’s an impressive building. During the months of April to November, there is a food and drink market in The Cloisters, where you can get great food to eat or take home.
In February 2017 we walked down to Kirkstall Abbey from further up Broad Lane, which is quite a steep hill, downhill on the way there, uphill on the return journey. On the way to the abbey you walk past the new Kirkstall Bridge Retail Park and enter the abbey off Bridge Road. The paths are newly tarmacked, although not very wide and muddy at the edges, but nice and smooth for pushchairs and wheelchairs. There’s a wooden bridge to go over, before you can finally start to see the abbey and an impressive view from the opposite side to what we had seen before.
Following the path you can walk down the side of the abbey and the path will take you away from the abbey, we cut through into a square garden area and before heading back towards the abbey and down the other side and arrived back to where we first started.
he whole route took us about 1 hour 15 minutes, so a gentle stroll just around the abbey itself, will take you about 45 minutes.
