Pickering Park Circuit

Given to the city by Christopher Pickering in 1911 and laid out three miles west of the centre off Pickering Road, this is the big green space for the Gipsyville and Hessle Road end of Hull, with a fishing lake, a bandstand ringed with picnic benches, a bike track, an outdoor gym and a calisthenics zone. It is Hull City Council land, and Hull is a unitary authority with no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order at all, so the only dog rule published for the park is the one covering the enclosed play area. The circuit follows the made-up carriage paths round the lake and the playing fields and back past the aviary, which since a half-million-pound refurbishment holds birds, small mammals and a group of meerkats. Keep a lead handy for the aviary end and for the paddling pool, and note that the playing fields are marked out for football and rounders and are in use most weekends.