Dozens of readers emailed us about Yorkshire's real-life "Sleepy Hollow", as featured in the YEP on Saturday.

And today, we can finally reveal the location of the abandoned village –which isn't really a village at all.

The spooky settlement is actually the site of the old Eastmoor school in Adel, Leeds, which first opened in 1857 as the Leeds Reformatory for Boys, later becoming Eastmoor Approved School.

But readers are urged NOT to visit the abandoned site, which is privately owned and extremely dangerous.

Ghosts are believed to haunt the settlement, which lies next to the new Eastmoor Secure Unit, and the village is plagued by vandals, burglars and arsonists.

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One reader said: "In the 19th century, a child under 14 could be sent to a place like Eastmoor for begging, wandering, consorting with thieves and prostitution.

"In more modern times it became the Eastmoor approved school and housed more dangerous criminals.

"One of Jamie Bulger's killers, Jon Venables, apparently spent time there in the 1990s.

"As time went on, the site grew, and became a self-contained village. Some of the buildings are still littered with clothes and toys, which gives the whole place a really eerie feel.

"But the buildings really aren't safe. People shouldn't go up there because it's trespassing and it's dangerous."

After Eastmoor closed as a community home, it was used as accommodation for Leeds University students, who left when a new campus opened in Headingley in 2003.

The "ghost town" is owned by Leeds City Council, who intend to sell the site to make way for a new housing development - although it is thought the chapel, later used as a gym, will remain.

The other buildings include staff housing and a laundry, as well as residential and education blocks, one of which was used to film a fire scene for ITV1 hospital drama The Royal.

A Leeds City Council spokeswoman said: "We have agreed a sale of the land to Barratts, subject to the granting of planning consent, which has been approved in principle by the council, and subject to numerous conditions and the signing of a section 106 agreement."