Otley Run

The Otley Run is a pub crawl in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The pub crawl was commonly known as the Headingly Mile prior to the Otley Run. It was historically a mile stretch of Tetley pubs leading in to Leeds City Centre. Over the years more pubs and bars have opened stretching it over more than a mile. The route follows the A660, also known as Otley Road at the point the pub crawl commonly begins. The Otley Run is a popular social gathering for student clubs and societies from The University of Leeds, Leeds College of Music, Leeds College of Art, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds Beckett University and The University of Bradford Hockey Club and is also a common activity for birthdays and other celebrations among graduates and city residents. Participants often wear fancy dress and coordinate their costumes to a particular theme. It is also traditional for students of Lawnswood School, Roundhay School, Notre Dame Sixth Form College, Guiseley School, Horsforth School and Abbey Grange Academy Sixth Form to do the Otley Run on their last day, as well as students from Otley's Prince Henry's Grammar School Sixth Form, with their run usually including various pubs and bars around Otley as well as the traditional Headingley Mile destinations.

Early incarnations of the Otley Run route covered considerably more of the Otley Road and followed it closely. The tradition of starting an Otley Run early predates The Licensing Act 1988's repeal of the law requiring pubs to close in the afternoon. Prior to this, Otley's status as a thriving market town having given it exemption from this law made it a popular start point. A journey covering the Tetley pubs lining the main road would therefore pass or approach such sites as the University playing fields at Bodington Hall and Weetwood Pavilion, as well as Carnegie stadium, Castle Grove Masonic Lodge, the famous Lounge and Cottage Road cinemas, Woodhouse Ridge, the site of Leeds Girls' High School, and Woodhouse Moor/Hyde Park.

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