Judy Woods

By Bus

Station Road Wyke entrances . The 363 Bradford to Huddersfield will drop you in Huddersfield Road (A641) at the top of Station Road. Other buses will get you to Wyke and it's a short walk to Station Road

Meadway, Woodside entrance. The 613 Bradford to Buttershaw and 682 Bradford to Halifax buses will drop you off in Fenwick Drive. The 681 will drop you off on Halifax Road.

Norwood Green entrance The 226 Halifax to Norwood Green is an in frequent bus service. See instruction for Wyke and follow Station Road round to Norwood Green

By Car

Station Road Wyke entrances . Follow the A641 ( Huddersfield Road ) to Wyke. Turn down Station Road , opposite Green Lane . Sat Nav BD12 8LA

Meadway, Woodside entrance. Follow the A6036 ( Halifax Road ) and turn into Fenwick Drive opposite Tesco's supermarket. Turn right at the T junction by the fields onto Meadway. Entrance is just before the bungalows on the left. Sat Nav BD6 2SP

Norwood Green entrance . Park on Village Street in Norwood Green. Sowden Lane is on the corner just past the Old White Beare. Sat Nav HX3 8QL

At over 100 acres Judy woods is third largest in Bradford.and one of Yorkshire’s largest ancient beech woodlands.

Judy woods is a collective name for a group of woods nicknamed after Judy North, or ‘Gurt Judy’ as she was known, who sold ginger beer, parkin pigs and sticks of spice from her cottage near Horse Close Bridge in the 1850s and 60s. Judy was the second wife of Joseph North whose family had managed the “pleasure gardens” on the hillside by the bridge since the early 1800’s.

Parts of the woods are known by their own names, including: Doctor Wood, Gannerthorpe, Jagger Park Wood, Low Wood, Neddy Wood, North Brow Wood, Old Hanna Wood, Royds Hall Great Wood