Westwood is the large common to the west of the town — open grazing land where cattle still roam in summer, criss-crossed by paths, and dotted with a few landmarks: the Black Mill of 1803, a tower windmill stripped of its sails and used as a navigation marker for shipping in the Humber; Beverley Racecourse, which has held flat racing on the common since the eighteenth century; and several Iron Age earthworks visible in the turf.
A walk across the Westwood from the North Bar to the racecourse and back, perhaps with a pint in one of the pubs on the way, is the classic Beverley afternoon for people who want something other than churches. It is exactly the kind of urban-edge common that makes English towns rewarding.