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I'm delighted to invite you all to the 21st Annual West Yorkshire All-Day.We will be singing from the 2025 revision of the Sacred Harp ("the green book").
Saturday 14th of November; 10am registration for 10:30 start, finish at 4pm.
Address: Holy Trinity Church, Church Street, Rothwell, LS26 0QL. The parish centre where the singing will take place is directly east of the church building.
Registration and data protection:
All singers will be asked to fill out a registration card with their name and hometown. These details will be used to generate a broad, non-personally-identifiable record of the number of attendants and country representation, as well as arranging singers who wish to lead a song. Leaders will have their names and the songs they led minuted for official records, as is standard practice. Registration cards will be destroyed securely as soon as practical after the singing.
Loaner books:
Loaner books will be available for singers who don't have their own copy. Books will not be available to purchase.
Dinner on the grounds:
This will be a bring-and-share lunch as usual. Slow cookers are welcome, but we do not have use of any facilities to heat food. Please take responsibility for your own dish(es) throughout the day as the kitchen and lunch tables will not be staffed during singing.
Step-free access:
There is a step-free entrance to the church grounds and the venue from Meynell Avenue, to the east of the main entrance. There is also some parking available on this street, but please only park here if someone in your party needs to use this entrance.
Accommodation:
The Holiday Inn Express Leeds East in Oulton is just under two miles away from the singing and is linked by bus routes.
Directions to the venue:
Public Transport:
Singers arriving by train to Leeds railway station will need to make their way to the bus station to pick up the 444 or 446 bus, which stops outside Rothwell church (stop name Ingram Parade). The bus station is about 15 minutes walk east of the train station, or there are multiple bus routes that go in that direction.
Alternatively, if you change at Leeds and take the train to Woodlesford, the 446 bus now goes directly from Woodlesford station into Rothwell.
If these changes present a problem for you and you need a lift from the station, please get in touch with me and I'll do my best to organise something.
Car - From M1 Junction 44:
Exit east onto the A639, signposted Pontefract and Castleford. When you reach a set of traffic lights, turn right onto Styebank Lane. At the end of this road, turn right onto Park Lane and go straight over the next roundabout. The second roundabout you reach is the turning for Meynell Avenue and a large car park, and the church is visible from the third roundabout shortly after that.
Car - From M62 Junction 30:
Exit north onto the A642, signposted Leeds, Oulton, Rothwell, and Garforth. Continue along this road and take the first exit on the next two roundabouts you come to. The speed limit will change to 50, then gradually lower to 30 as you enter Rothwell. Continue along this road as it bends to the left onto Marsh Lane, then turn right at the traffic lights with an Aldi supermarket on the left hand side onto Butcher Lane. The church will be visible up ahead.
Parking:
There are a number of car parks of various sizes in Rothwell. The Marsh Lane car park is pay and display, but all other parking is free. There are two small car parks on Butcher Lane, and one on Church Street, the latter of which is the closest to the venue. These car parks are popular however. The overground car park at Morrisons now has a three-hour time limit, so avoid parking there unless you want to spend lunch moving your car.
Please do not park in the Methodist church car park, the Aldi car park, or the Morrisons underground car park. Please leave the roadside parking on Meynell Avenue free for singers with access requirements as parking there is limited.
For singers driving electric or PHEV cars, there are Type 2 charging points at the car park at the top of Butcher Lane, and a fast charging point in the Marsh Lane car park.
Cover picture: Sophie Lockhart
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Holy Trinity Church, Rothwell, Leeds, Church Street,Robin Hood, Wakefield, United Kingdom
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