Guidebook for Kippax

Vicky

Ujoyine ngo-2014

Food Scene

Grand Bengal Indian Restaurant

It is a restaurant which also does take-away, and the food is excellent Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine. The staff are really friendly :) and it's B.Y.O.B. - there is an off licence nearby ("Bargain Booze") and a Co-op supermarket a little way up the road if you want to buy alcoholic drinks to take in. If you don't mind walking up the hill, it's probably 15 minutes or less by foot. There is parking a bit further up into Kippax if you prefer to drive.

Grand Bengal Indian Restaurant

18 Cross Hills

It is a restaurant which also does take-away, and the food is excellent Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine. The staff are really friendly :) and it's B.Y.O.B. - there is an off licence nearby ("Bargain Booze") and a Co-op supermarket a little way up the road if you want to buy alcoholic drinks to take in. If you don't mind walking up the hill, it's probably 15 minutes or less by foot. There is parking a bit further up into Kippax if you prefer to drive.

Miller & Carter Garforth

It's a decent steak / similar restaurant with it's own car park, a short drive from the house. It's part of a chain but I have always had a decent meal and good service there - lots of tables inside too so often not too difficult to get a table.

Miller & Carter Garforth

Selby Road

It's a decent steak / similar restaurant with it's own car park, a short drive from the house. It's part of a chain but I have always had a decent meal and good service there - lots of tables inside too so often not too difficult to get a table.

The Station House Cafe Garforth

Station Road

Tasty Bites

26 High St

Parks & Nature

Iphakamisa Yase RSPB St Aidan's Nature Park

It's a beautiful nature reserve, now managed by the RSPB. If you go to the visitors' centre and use their facilities you have to pay a small charge but it is free to use the footpaths if you just want to walk around it. The lakes there are full of beautiful birds, now occupying land which used to be an open-cast mine. You can also see "Oddball" - the absolutely enormous open-cast mining machinery that is still on the site! The footpaths also connect to a walk over to Lemonroyd Marina, and to the Transpennine Trail and Leeds Country Way networks.

Iphakamisa Yase RSPB St Aidan's Nature Park

Astley Lane

It's a beautiful nature reserve, now managed by the RSPB. If you go to the visitors' centre and use their facilities you have to pay a small charge but it is free to use the footpaths if you just want to walk around it. The lakes there are full of beautiful birds, now occupying land which used to be an open-cast mine. You can also see "Oddball" - the absolutely enormous open-cast mining machinery that is still on the site! The footpaths also connect to a walk over to Lemonroyd Marina, and to the Transpennine Trail and Leeds Country Way networks.

Rothwell Country Park

Bullough Lane

Lemonroyd Marina

Essentials

Sainsbury's Local

It's further to walk than the Co-Op but opens later!

Sainsbury's Local

157 Moorgate Rd

It's further to walk than the Co-Op but opens later!

Co-op Food - Kippax - 60 High Street

60 High St

Lidl

Aberford Road

Getting Around

Garforth station

Train station with fast connections into Leeds and York, some direct trains to Manchester / Manchester Airport, Selby etc. Good for connections via Leeds/York. Free car park but sometimes gets very full around morning rush hour.

Garforth station

Train station with fast connections into Leeds and York, some direct trains to Manchester / Manchester Airport, Selby etc. Good for connections via Leeds/York. Free car park but sometimes gets very full around morning rush hour.