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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 rocks are made of millstone grit, a variety of sandstone, and are so named because one is large, with the smaller one sitting close to it, like a cow and calf.
Ilkley Manor House, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England, is a local heritage museum, art gallery, and live venue, and was established in the present building in 1961 to preserve local archaeological artefacts after the spa town expanded and much Roman material was lost. It was managed by Bradford Council Museums and Galleries department but had to ...
Collyer notes that there is not one sure word about Ilkley in the 800 years after the improvement of the fort by Virius Lupus; but that by the Norman period the area had an Anglo-Saxon name, derived from the Roman and Old British names; was a parish with church and priest; and contained four centres of life and industry, namely Ilkley ...
Ilkley features in Stage 3 of the inaugural Tour, with the race set to enter from the west along the A65, before turning to climb up past the Cow and Calf. [58] The annual Tour de Yorkshire which is a spin-off from the 2014 Tour de France includes Ilkley as part of the route. In 2018 the stage 2 finish line was at the Cow and Calf rocks, its ...
Rombalds Moor consists of several moors, usually named after the nearest town or village bordering it. They include (clockwise from north): Ilkley Moor, Burley Moor, Hawksworth Moor, Baildon Moor, Bingley Moor, Morton Moor, and Addingham High Moor. There are over 400 examples of stones with cup and ring marks on them scattered across Rombalds ...
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Ilkley Town A.F.C. is a football club based at Coutances Way, and compete in the Northern Counties East League. [5]Ben Rhydding Hockey Club is a field hockey club that is based at Countances Way, and competes in the Men's England Hockey League, the Women's England Hockey League, the North Hockey League and the Yorkshire & North East Hockey League.
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]