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Informal spaces

Many of York's informal green spaces lie alongside main roads, obvious to passers by, others are hidden away behind the buildings of the modern city.

In this section:

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
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

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