Not as strenuous as it sounds, especially when you can reward yourself with a hot drink and snack from M&S or Costa.
This route takes you to Gledhow Wing via a mostly outside route. Great if you want to get some fresh air.
Accessibility
This route involves going up and down a long ramp that you may struggle with, though it does have a handrail to help and one seat to rest on halfway.
Both inside and outside the flooring is quite smooth, there are a couple of dropped curbs outside but should be possible to navigate even with a drip stand.
There are some rest seats along the inside route but few outside. Similarly, handrails are available inside along the route but not outside.
There are toilets in the Bexley wing atrium, and on the ground floor of Gledhow wing.
Step & distance information
| Speedy Walking Pace | 994 steps | Walking time approx. 14 minutes | 690 metres distance covered |
| Comfortable Walking Pace | 1392 steps | Walking time approx. 19 minutes | 690 metres distance covered |
Walking route directions
1. Start point. Turn left out of the main ward entrance.
2. Walk a short distance down the corridor until you reach the green lift on your right.
3. Take the green lift down to level 0.
4. You will find yourself in the Bexley wing atrium. You could stop for a little break here or continue on. Walk left, and walk out of the main entrance.
5. Bear right as you exit Bexley Wing.
6. Follow the black and white bollards, past the wooden structures, and cross at the zebra crossing.
7. Follow the pavement away from Bexley Wing.
8. Cross at the second zebra crossing that you come to.
9. Straight ahead is an entrance to the main hospital building.
10. Go through the automatic double doors and then the internal doors and turn left.
11. After turning left, head down the corridor following straight for a while.
12. Follow the corridor and then turn left at the end.
13. Turn right through the wooden doors, following the signs to Gledhow wing.
14. Take care going down the ramp.
15. Turn left at the bottom of the ramp.
16. Pass M&S on your left to reach the seating area.
17. You have arrived! We recommend taking a break with or without a tea/coffee before heading back to the ward. You can go back the way you came or, if the weather has taken a turn for the worst travel back via an inside route using route.(route 4b provides instructions for this)
18. To go back the way you came, return to the ramp you came down, passing M and S on your right.
19. Walk up the ramp and turn left at the top.
20. Follow the corridor as it turns right and continue past the ‘Leeds Way’ posters.
21. You will come to an exit on your right with a sign to the multi-storey car park- go through this exit.
22. Go through the automatic doors to end up outside.
23. Cross at the zebra crossing straight ahead.
24. Follow the pavement to the left after you have crossed.
25. Continue up the pavement with the multi-storey carpark on your right.
26. You will go over a zebra crossing as you head towards Bexley Wing. Walk between the wooden panelling on the path.
27. You will get to the main entrance of Bexley wing, enter through the revolving doors.
28. Here you are in the Bexley wing atrium. Feel free to stop for another break here, if you like before heading back to the ward.
29. When you want to return to the ward, go to the green lift. To find this from reception walk along with the wall on your left, until you come to the lift on your right. (Do not use the blue or red lifts)
30. Take the green lift up to level 2.
31. Turn left out of the lift and walk a little down the corridor.
Finish point. 32. Return to the ward through the doors on your right.
Ward contact details
General Surgery and Transplant (J83)
Wing: Bexley Wing
Floor: 2
Contact number: 0113 2069183
Visiting times: 2 pm – 8 pm – Two visitors per patient with no swapping of visitor mid-visit. No under 16s.