Hyde Park

Hyde Park is a vibrant multi-cultural community. Its relatively cheap (in comparison to Headingley) housing stock and close location to the Universities and the City Centre have made it popular with students and families alike. It boasts a wide variety of shops and cafes with everything from retro boutiques to organic whole foods and of course the Hyde Park Picture House. The latter is one of the oldest surviving working picture palaces in the U.K. Hyde Park itself (or to call it correctly Woodhouse Moor) has yearly music festivals and the park features tennis courts and a skate park for the more active whilst a traditional crown green bowling green and clubhouse caters for those used to more sedate activities.

The suburb of Hyde Park is set on the main road leading from the City Centre via the front doors of the City Campuses of both Universities to Headingley, Far Headingley and Becketts Park, Adel and Bodington Hall, Hyde Park is the first suburb on the A610 -a route dubbed by Estate Agents as "the academic ghetto" and benefits from the very frequent bus services that serve Headingley and beyond as well as being served by its own local bus service (the no. 56). It has a significant variety of ethnic supermarkets, take aways and cafes / restaurants that cater to not only the student population but also to the indigenous ethnic groups.

Its housing stock is predominantly terraced properties dating from the latter part of the 19 th and early part of the 20 th Centuries. Many of the larger properties have been converted into flats and studios and the size range goes from small 1 person studio apartments to houses offering accommodation for 9 or more people as a shared house.