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There is more beneath the surface
At first blush, there is nothing special about these two humble green spaces between the big road and the railway tracks, but once you go past the low walls into the larger of the two, you will find that the flagstones along the side are not paving at all -- luckily, as it would be terribly uneven! -- but gravestones. If you do not mind a slight macabre atmosphere or even appreciate the presence of past, it is not a bad place for a short rest, with benches and bins and some grass for any dogs or small children you might have with you to have a frolic.
As far as I can tell, only the larger park on the corner of Kirkgate and Duke Street is actually called either St John's Park or Penny Pocket Park, but you could think of it as a larger green space cut through by Church Lane and the train tracks with three parts over all. This is how I will be referring to them in this review: the main part (the largest bit between Kirkgate, Duke Street, Church Lane and the tracks), the east part (the smaller bit on Kirkgate, across Church Lane from the main part), and the north part (on York Street, on the other side of the tracks from the main part).
At first blush, there is nothing special about these two humble green spaces between the big road and the railway tracks, but once you go past the low walls into the larger of the two, you will find that the flagstones along the side are not paving at all -- luckily, as it would be terribly uneven! -- but gravestones. If you do not mind a slight macabre atmosphere or even appreciate the presence of past, it is not a bad place for a short rest, with benches and bins and some grass for any dogs or small children you might have with you to have a frolic.
As far as I can tell, only the larger park on the corner of Kirkgate and Duke Street is actually called either St John's Park or Penny Pocket Park, but you could think of it as a larger green space cut through by Church Lane and the train tracks with three parts over all. This is how I will be referring to them in this review: the main part (the largest bit between Kirkgate, Duke Street, Church Lane and the tracks), the east part (the smaller bit on Kirkgate, across Church Lane from the main part), and the north part (on York Street, on the other side of the tracks from the main part).
