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Ilkley Moor, to the south of the town, is the subject of a folk song, often described as the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire, " On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at ".
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Ilkley and Moor
* Cow and Calf, Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire.
This journey involved a break in Leeds, where a group of sympathetic students and graduates took the fragment to Ilkley Moor for an overnight stay, accompanied by renditions of " On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at ".
In England, neolithic or bronze age stone carvings of the symbol have been found on Ilkley Moor.
The Swastika Stone is a petroglyph on the northern edge of Ilkley Moor, overlooking the Wharfe valley, which is unique in British rock art.
It seems possible that the Lingones troops who worshipped Verbeia may have encountered the Camunian rose on migrating across the Alps, and adopted the symbol, carving it on Ilkley Moor while stationed there.
Across Baildon Moor is the village of Menston, the town of Ilkley and Ilkley Moor.
The song's words are written in Yorkshire dialect, its title translated as " On Ilkley Moor without a hat.
The area around Ilkley has been continuously settled since at least the early Bronze Age, around 1800 BC ; more than 250 cup and ring marks, and swastika carvings dating to the period have been found on rock outcrops, and archaeological remains of dwellings are found on Ilkley Moor.
Rombalds Moor, between Silsden and Ilkley, is about six miles east of Cross Hills.
Ilkley Moor is part of Rombalds Moor, the moorland between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire, England.
During the Carboniferous period ( 325 million years ago ), Ilkley Moor was part of a sea level swampy area fed by meandering river channels coming from the north.
Ilkley Moor on a clear evening as the daylight falls.
Located on the Woodhouse Crag, on the Northern edge of Ilkley Moor there is a swastika-shaped pattern engraved in a stone, known as the Swastika Stone, also referred to as a Fylfot.
* " Ilkley Moor ", Ilkley-town. co. uk.
* Friends of Ilkley Moor web site, Ilkleymoor. org
Ilkley and south
The river winds south and south east towards Ilkley where it heads east through Otley and Collingham.
The main roads through the town are the A660 to the south east, which connects Otley to Bramhope, Adel and Leeds city centre, and the A65 to the west, which goes to Ilkley and Skipton.
A Roman road ran along the top of the Chevin, part of the road that linked Eboracum ( York ), Calcaria ( Tadcaster ) and Olicana ( Ilkley ), perhaps on the same route as the modern road, Yorkgate, or perhaps about 800m to the south.
Olicana is generally recognised as the Roman fort on the south bank of the River Wharfe, situated at the centre of where Ilkley, a Victorian spa town in West Yorkshire, England now stands.
The Dales Way is an 84-mile ( 135 km ) Long Distance Footpath in Northern England, from ( south east to north west ) Ilkley, West Yorkshire to Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria.
Ilkley and town
Shipley railway station serves the town, and has an unusual triangular layout, corresponding to the Skipton to Leeds line, the Leeds to Bradford ( Forster Square ) line, and the Bradford to Skipton / Ilkley lines.
Ilkley is a spa town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, in Northern England.
The agents of William Middelton ( 1815 – 1885 ) were responsible for the design of the new town of Ilkley to replace the village which had stood there before.
In the 20th and 21st centuries Ilkley has become a dormitory town for cities of Leeds and Bradford.
The millstone grit not only gives character to the town of Ilkley but gives the area its acid soils, heather moors, soft water and rocky scars.
To the north, where the moor drops steeply towards the village of Ben Rhydding, a satellite of the town of Ilkley, are two millstone grit rock climbing areas: Rocky Valley and Ilkley Quarry.
Legend has it that there was once also a " bull ", but that was quarried for stone during the spa town boom that Ilkley was part of in the 19th century.
The largest settlements on the route are Ilkley and Bowness-on-Windermere at either end, and the small town of Sedbergh in Dentdale.
The spa town of Ilkley lies further north, whilst the town of Keighley lies to the west.
In 1982 the institution was named Bradford and Ilkley Community College, after a merger with Ilkley College, giving the combined college a small satellite campus in the nearby town of Ilkley, north-east of Bradford.
When passing through the local station in the Yorkshire town of Ilkley, drivers soon began to play the first line of the folk song, " On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at " on their loco / DMU horns, using a series of short blasts: LOW, h-i-g-h high high, LOW, high, until the practice was stopped by authorities.
He then went off for a two month stay at Ilkley Wells House, a spa in the town of Ilkley.
The stock of 1, 250 copies was oversubscribed, and Darwin, still at Ilkley spa town, began corrections for a second edition.
It comprises the Labour-voting areas of Keighley, the Conservative spa town of Ilkley, and the rural areas of Craven and Worth Valley which are also Tory.
Ben Rhydding is nowadays a predominantly residential area of Ilkley, served by a railway station, pub, two petrol stations, two churches and a few basic shops but relying in the main on the town for shopping and civic facilities.
Ilkley and is
She is known from a single altar-stone dedicated to her at Ilkley ( RIB 635 ).
An image of a woman ( also from Ilkley ) may represent the goddess: she is depicted with an overlarge head and schematic features ; she wears a long, pleated robe and she has two large snakes, represented as geometric zig-zags, which she grasps, one in each hand.
It is part of the former Midland Railway route from Skipton to Ilkley ( which was closed down by British Railways in 1965 14 years earlier ).
The river source is at Beckermonds, Langstrothdale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and flows through Kettlewell, Grassington, Bolton Abbey, Addingham, Ilkley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Otley, Wetherby and Tadcaster.
A bus service ( 967 ) runs from Menston station, which is on the Wharfedale Line from Leeds, Bradford and Ilkley.
Kirkstall is situated on the A65 road which links it to Leeds city centre, Guiseley, Yeadon and Ilkley.
The village is served by Baildon railway station on the electrified Wharfedale Line with connections to Bradford Forster Square, Leeds and Ilkley.
Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Ilkley civil parish includes the adjacent village of Ben Rhydding and is a ward within the metropolitan borough of Bradford.
The earliest evidence of habitation in the Ilkley area is flint arrowheads or microliths, dating to the Mesolithic period, from about 11, 000 BC onwards.
The lowest unit of local government is Ilkley Parish Council.
Ilkley is part of the Keighley UK Parliament constituency whose seat is held by Kris Hopkins, Conservative MP, who replaced Ann Cryer and was elected in the 2010 general election.
Ilkley is in the Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency.
Ilkley Quarry is the site of the famous " Cow and Calf ", a large rock formation consisting of an outcrop and boulder, also known as Hangingstone Rocks.
On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at ( Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat ) is a popular folk song from Yorkshire, England.
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