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The Otley Run is a pub crawl in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The popular route covers Far Headingley , Headingley and Hyde Park areas and commonly continues towards Leeds City Centre. Today's Otley Run is seen as a rite of passage for students studying at Leeds' universities [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and its modern route features in a London Underground style pub ...
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The pub, which is one of the stopping points on the Otley Run pub crawl, is a grade II listed building. [5] [7] The Yorkshire Ramblers’ Club, the second oldest mountaineering club in England, was founded at a meeting held in the Skyrack pub on 6 October 1892. [8]
The Wharfedale Greenway is a proposed cycleway, footpath and equestrian route which will run along the route of the former Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway between Burley in Wharfedale and Pool in Wharfedale via Otley, West Yorkshire, England. The railway previously connected the extant Wharfedale and Harrogate lines until its closure in 1965.
In the early 18th century the main road from Leeds to Otley ran via Burley and Cookridge and over the top of The Chevin, while the road from Leeds to Headingley was only a country lane. The Leeds-Otley Turnpike Trust was established in 1755, and improved the road from Leeds to Headingley and thence to Cookridge to join the existing road. There ...
Until early 2010, two rooms in the Otley Civic Centre housed the museum's eclectic collection of objects depicting the history of Otley and its surrounding District from prehistoric times through Anglo Saxon and Viking era, into the medieval period, and documenting its development from a rural community to a Victorian industrial town, and into ...
The Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway was a railway line running between the towns of Otley and Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The line was managed and run jointly by the Midland Railway (MR) and the North Eastern Railway (NER) and was 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (10 km) long. Opened to passenger traffic on 1 August 1865 and freight traffic some months later ...
It was closed to passengers in March 1965 (at the same time as the route via Otley to Leeds) and to all traffic at the beginning of 1966, reducing Ilkley to a terminus once more. [6] The track alongside both Platforms 3 and 4 remained in place for a time following closure as a through route, with Platform 3 seeing occasional peak-time passenger ...