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  • Leeds and District Gardeners' Federation - an association of allotment and leisure gardeners
  • How to get an Allotment in Leeds - an unofficial listing of Leeds City Council sites.
  • Gledhow Valley Allotment Association, Chapel Allerton, Leeds; this was the site for the YTV allotment series!
  • Plot Armley Ridge Road (PARR) - photo diary of a lively allotment site in West Leeds.
  • Geoff and Friends' Allotments - revitalising an allotment site in Swillington.
  • UK Allotments - Brian and Debbie's allotment on Haley's Field, Bramley, Leeds; worth keeping an eye on as it develops as a general information resource.
  • Bandstand Allotments/Community Gardens, Meanwood Valley; great story of their regeneration and all power to their elbows.
  • Low Moor Allotments, York - fascinating site, great for browsing.   Includes their communal "Greenboard" (neat idea!).
  • Ilkley Gardeners' Association - news of their activities and meetings.
  • Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, Leeds or here.
  • West Yorkshire Organic Group
  • Food Futures promoting locally grown food in Kirklees and Calderdale
  • A gardening diary - again from Leeds
  • Wild West Yorkshire - Richard Bell's Nature Diary - a beautiful, magical, inspirational, provocative web-site; visit it, and you'll understand why I say no more!
  • Leeds Beekeepers' Association
  • The Friends of Beckett Street Cemetery; lots of information on the first Corporation burial site in Britain, its history, ecology, and preservation.
  • The Leodis Database - A Photographic Archive of Leeds - with a fascinating collection of photos of old Seacroft, and the development of the housing estate in the 1950s.
  • The Seacroft Village Preservation Society - gives access to
    • a brief history of the village,
    • some pictures of old/new Seacroft,
    • and Memories of Seacroft as a Village 1926 –1947.
  • Find us on multimap.com.   The allotment site runs parallel to and south of Fearnville Road; access by the long ginnel on the map.
  • Leeds Information service - WWW.LeedsNet.Com