What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Friends of Middleton Park are marking Leeds 400 by hosting a free guided walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (20 September 2026) exploring the parks link to coal mining, railways and the Industrial Revolution. Middleton park is the home of the historic Middleton Colliery – supplying Leeds with the
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (26 July 2026) exploring trees and butterflies within the park. As part of city wide butterfly conservation work, this year work has started on a wild flower meadow on the ‘Old Nine’ area of
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (21 June 2026) exploring the Waggonways and Railways within the park. Middleton Park is the home of the historic Middleton Colliery – supplying Leeds with coal from the early 1600s. In the early 1750s
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided Spring walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (19 April 2026). Spring is here early this year – and the signs are all around in the woods. The Bluebells are already in flower, the woodpeckers are drumming, birds are nest building
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided winter walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (15 March 2026) exploring the legacy of the Brandling family in Middleton and Leeds Ralph Brandling married Anne Leigh, the heiress of the Middleton Estate, in 1697 and inherited the estate in 1706.
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided winter walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (15 February 2026). This is the first of their 2026 Monthly Guided Walks which will take place every month in the park up to November. The Friends are doing a Winter Guided walk
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (16 November 2025) exploring the tramway that ran through the woods. One hundred years ago, on 10 November 1925 the Ministry of Transport inspector checked over the new tramway from Leeds to Middleton. Two
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (26 October 2025) for Halloween telling tales of Death in the Park. Middleton Park in South Leeds, famous for its magnificent semi-ancient woodlands, early coal mining and historic railway, has been the scene of
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (21 September 2025) exploring history in Beeston Wood. It is nearly 70 years since you could take a ride from Leeds to Middleton by tram through the woods – the most exciting tram ride
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (27 July 2025) exploring trees and butterflies in the park. The land that used to be the “Old Nine” of the municipal golf course at Middleton has in recent years been planted with specimen