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The 1984 British comedy film A Private Function, written by Alan Bennett, was filmed in Ilkley and Ben Rhydding. [69] The town was also one of the locations used for the 2003 British comedy film Calendar Girls. [70] The BBC programme Psychoville is set, in part, in Ilkley. The Ilkley Gazette is the town's weekly newspaper.
In 1994, Ilkley were founded as Ilkley AFC, joining the Harrogate and District Football League winning the Division 3 League and Cup double in the first season, before securing a second straight promotion the following season. In 2004, the club joined the West Yorkshire League, changing the name of the club to Ilkley Town a year later. [1]
Ilkley Town Hall, on Station Road, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, is a Grade II listed municipal building designed by William Bakewell of Leeds. It forms the centre of a small complex of public buildings, which also includes Ilkley Library (a Carnegie library ), and the King's Hall & Winter Garden theatre .
Say Your Prayers is a 2020 British black comedy film, which had a working title of Ilkley. [1] The film stars Roger Allam, Derek Jacobi, Anna Maxwell Martin, Harry Melling, Vinette Robinson and Flora Spencer-Longhurst. [2] [3] Harry Michell directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Jamie Fraser, and the producer is Helen Simmons. [2] [3]
Prior to the spa boom, however, Ilkley was "a little, old and ragged village" of single storey thatched cottages. [29] In the 19th century the town became established as a fashionable spa town, with the construction a mile to the east of the town, at Wheatley, of the vast Ben Rhydding Hydro or Hydropathic Establishment between 1843 and 1844 ...
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. 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.
The first fort at Ilkley was founded by Agricola around 80 AD and was largely constructed of wood, [3] but this was later abandoned in the 120s. [1] A second fort was erected around 161 AD which survived for 30 years, before being burnt down, [ 3 ] perhaps during a documented rebellion by the inhabitants of northern Britain. [ 1 ]
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