Informal spaces

In this section:

• Acomb Green
  A local green space, a short distance from Acomb Front Street
• Bachelor Hill
  A well-hidden site which is worth seeking out
• Bootham Stray
  More than 100-acres of grassland, with large parts grazed by cattle
• Fishponds Wood and Beech Grove
  Two small sites with fine mature beech trees
• Heworth Holme
  Six-acres of wet grassland alongside the Tang Hall Beck
• Heworth Stray
  The stray is part of the ancient Heworth Moor
• Micklegate Stray
  This is the largest and best known of York's historic strays
• Monk Stray
  A pleasant, open area of mown grass with a variety of trees
• Rawcliffe Bar Country Park
  Some 2000 trees and 1500 woodland shrubs were planted during the establishment of the Country Park
• Scarcroft Green
  Situated on Scarcroft Green, York
• Walmgate Stray
  Walmgate Stray, commonly known as Low moor, is a remnant of York's historic landscape
• Lakes and ponds
  Rawcliffe lake and Chapmans pond