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Pugneys Country Park

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Overview
When you’re left with an open cast mine and a quarry next to each other, what can you do with them? Simple – turn them into a country park, offer watersports on the big lake, and create a 24-acre nature reserve. Watersports available include canoeing, sailing and windsurfing – and a new Watersports Centre provides excellent facilities during your visit.
Location
Asdale Road, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7EQ
About the area
Everybody knows that Yorkshire has some special landscapes. The Dales and the Moors first spring to mind, but what about West Yorkshire? That’s Leeds and Bradford isn’t it? Back-to-back houses and blackened mills… Certainly if you had stood on any of the hills surrounding Hebden Bridge a hundred years ago, and gazed down into the valley, all you would have seen was the pall of smoke issuing from the chimneys of 33 textile mills.
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Pugneys Country Park

Recommended by Visit England Logo
Overview
When you’re left with an open cast mine and a quarry next to each other, what can you do with them? Simple – turn them into a country park, offer watersports on the big lake, and create a 24-acre nature reserve. Watersports available include canoeing, sailing and windsurfing – and a new Watersports Centre provides excellent facilities during your visit.
Location
Asdale Road, WAKEFIELD, WF2 7EQ
About the area
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Everybody knows that Yorkshire has some special landscapes. The Dales and the Moors first spring to mind, but what about West Yorkshire? That’s Leeds and Bradford isn’t it? Back-to-back houses and blackened mills… Certainly if you had stood on any of the hills surrounding Hebden Bridge a hundred years ago, and gazed down into the valley, all you would have seen was the pall of smoke issuing from the chimneys of 33 textile mills.