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Leeds has an abundance of sporting and leisure facilities, including more than twenty gyms and leisure centres, numerous golf courses and Xscape, an extreme sports centre.
The John Charles Centre for Sport is on Middleton Grove, about two miles out of the city centre. The centre contains a gym and provides fitness classes, as well as housing facilities for tennis, hockey, football, rugby, indoor bowling, athletics, badminton and table tennis. There is also a banqueting suite and bar, and three cafés located around the building.
Formerly known as the South Leeds Stadium, the centre is still signposted as such along the motorway. For general enquiries, call the stadium on 0113 395 0000; the Tennis Centre can be contacted on 0113 3950 010; and the Indoor Bowls and Athletics Course on 0113 395 1500.
The Leeds International Pool is on Westgate in the city centre and comprises a 50-metre pool, a diving pit and learner pool, as well as an aerobics studio and gym. There are conference facilities available to hire. For enquiries or bookings, call 0113 214 5000.
Xscape is a huge 430,000-sq/ft venue in Castleford, off Junction 32 of the M62. Winner of the Yorkshire Tourist Board’s Best Tourism Experience 2005, Group Leisure Awards’ Best New UK Tourist Attraction 2004, and the Royal Institute Chartered Surveyors Awards’ Pro Yorkshire Tourism Award 2004, the centre provides a variety of unusual sporting activities for people of all ages.
Xscape comprises a real snow slope, the tallest indoor ice climbing walls in Europe, two rock climbing walls, an aerial assault course, an indoor skateboard park, Laserzone, dodgems and ten-pin bowling facilities. There is also a multi-screen cinema, a gym, twenty bars and restaurants and ten shops. There is also free family entertainment during school holidays.
Call 0113 270 9506 for more information.
There are four pay-and-play golf courses around Leeds. These include Roundhay Park public golf course, a nine-hole, 5322 yard course, set in wooded parkland; ts Park public golf course, an 18-hole course with a golf shop; Temple Newsam public golf course, two 18-hole courses built in 1923; and Middleton Park public golf course, built in 1932 and comprising 18 holes.
The John Charles Centre for Sport is on Middleton Grove, about two miles out of the city centre. The centre contains a gym and provides fitness classes, as well as housing facilities for tennis, hockey, football, rugby, indoor bowling, athletics, badminton and table tennis. There is also a banqueting suite and bar, and three cafés located around the building.
Formerly known as the South Leeds Stadium, the centre is still signposted as such along the motorway. For general enquiries, call the stadium on 0113 395 0000; the Tennis Centre can be contacted on 0113 3950 010; and the Indoor Bowls and Athletics Course on 0113 395 1500.
The Leeds International Pool is on Westgate in the city centre and comprises a 50-metre pool, a diving pit and learner pool, as well as an aerobics studio and gym. There are conference facilities available to hire. For enquiries or bookings, call 0113 214 5000.
Xscape is a huge 430,000-sq/ft venue in Castleford, off Junction 32 of the M62. Winner of the Yorkshire Tourist Board’s Best Tourism Experience 2005, Group Leisure Awards’ Best New UK Tourist Attraction 2004, and the Royal Institute Chartered Surveyors Awards’ Pro Yorkshire Tourism Award 2004, the centre provides a variety of unusual sporting activities for people of all ages.
Xscape comprises a real snow slope, the tallest indoor ice climbing walls in Europe, two rock climbing walls, an aerial assault course, an indoor skateboard park, Laserzone, dodgems and ten-pin bowling facilities. There is also a multi-screen cinema, a gym, twenty bars and restaurants and ten shops. There is also free family entertainment during school holidays.
Call 0113 270 9506 for more information.
There are four pay-and-play golf courses around Leeds. These include Roundhay Park public golf course, a nine-hole, 5322 yard course, set in wooded parkland; ts Park public golf course, an 18-hole course with a golf shop; Temple Newsam public golf course, two 18-hole courses built in 1923; and Middleton Park public golf course, built in 1932 and comprising 18 holes.
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