Terminalia 2025 Roundhay Walk - Planning

As the Terminalia festival approaches once again I began to consider another walk. On 23rd February each year a one day festival of Psychogeography is held across the UK and the world, entitled 'Terminalia'.

As the festival website states, it is 'a one day festival of walking, space, place and psychogeography' named after 'Terminalia...the festival of Terminus, Roman god of boundaries'. 

Many events are group walks and encourage participation but there are also 'private, solitary walks' that are also listed on the main festival website.

This year I contemplated a walk in my hometown of Leeds, in the north of the UK. 

Roundhay Park is a large urban park covering over 700 acres, around 3 miles north of the city centre. 

The current extent of the park is the remaining section of an old hunting park, originally owned by the de Lacys, Lords of Bowland. Eventually sold to Thomas Nicholson and Samuel Elam, the northern part of the estate was taken by Nicholson and passed down through the family until being put up for sale in 1871. The rest of the old estate was sold off in sections for building development. 

It is my plan to walk close to the original boundary of the estate, making slight detours where necessary to avoid private land and other contemporary obstacles. As a guide, I am using the 1847 ordnance survey six-inch map, which seemed a fair approximation of the area and a convenient line to follow.

I have transferred the walking route onto a google map for easy reference and this can be seen below. On Sunday 23rd February, this route will be followed, walking clockwise from the end of Gledhow Lane (marked as a red dot on the map). 

Planned walking route

1847 map showing area boundary line

The final write-up of the walk on 23rd February 2025 can be read here.