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Ilkley's spa town heritage and surrounding countryside make tourism an important local industry. The town centre is characterised by Victorian architecture, wide streets and floral displays. 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".
After that, Ilkley State School remained a full-time school until its final closure on 31 December 1964 due to low student attendance. [8] It was at 525 Ilkley Road ( 26°42′59″S 152°59′50″E / 26.71629°S 152.99710°E / -26.71629; 152.99710 ( Ilkley State School (former
The parish contains the town of Ilkley, the adjacent village of Ben Rhydding, and the surrounding countryside. By the early 19th century Ilkley was a small village at an intersection of roads, and it then grew as a spa town, before later becoming a dormitory town for Bradford and Leeds. [1]
LS postcode area map, showing postcode districts in red and post towns in grey text, with links to nearby BD, DN, HG, WF and YO postcode areas. Detailed map of postcode districts in central Leeds See also
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 .
The Grove, Ilkley's principal shopping street, designed with wide pavements for promenading In the 17th and 18th centuries the town gained a reputation for the efficacy of its water. The Middleton family constructed and for many years maintained White Wells, an early example of a spa building containing dressing rooms and a bath fed from a ...
The Art Deco cafe at Ilkley Lido. Designed by Archie Skinner, Ilkley's surveyor and water engineer, building work started in 1934, and the lido was officially opened in May 1935 as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of King George V. [2] Opening events to commemorate the jubilee included `ladies and gents graceful high dive' and `ladies neatest and smartest modern bathing costume'. [2]
An illustration of Wells House from 1885 A pond to the front of Wells House, remaining from the original landscaping. Ilkley's first hydropathic establishment, designed around the principles of hydrotherapy or the cold water cure, a Victorian health fad which emerged in the early 1840s, was the Ben Rhydding Hydro, at Wheatley in 1843–4.