Heritage Walks 2010

The walks will last between an hour and an hour and a half.

Many walks begin at the Manor House Museum  ( 01943 600066 )

or Visitor Information Centre at Ilkley Town Hall (01943 602319 )

 also group walks by arrangement   -  Alex Cockshott   ( 01943 601561)     jcockshott@uwclub.net    

Saturday 11 Sept     morning & afternoon   Walkers are Welcome       for details contact Ilkley Visitors Information Centre  602319                      includes:

10am Launch of the South Pennine Walking and Riding Festival - Riddings Hall

Sunday  12  Sept        2pm    Sporting Ilkley         Helen Kidman ICS                                    meet at  Ilkley Railway Station                                                     An Heritage Open Day event

Tuesday Dec 28^th  11am          Old Ilkley         Alex Cockshott ICS                                               meet at the Manor House

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A Century of Guiding - The Wharfedale Experience  -  Exhibition

guided tour Friday Aug 20^th 2pm

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Talks at 7.30pm at Church House    

(Programme runs October to April)  

      Latest  Newsletter 

Friends of Ilkley Cemetery

Ilkley Past and Present

Sutton publication

                        by Civic Society members Alex Cockshott & Denise Shillitoe                            

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Ilkley Civic Society

We are a local group interested in Ilkley past and present .

We aim:

·        To promote high standards of planning and architecture.

·        To educate the public in the geography, history, natural history and architecture.

·        To secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic or public interest in Ilkley.

   We research local history through architecture, planning applications and local families.

   We guide local heritage walks through the summer. We can provide individual guided walks for visiting groups by arrangement.

   We give  illustrated talks, e.g. lost buildings of Ilkley, schools through the years in Ilkley, from village to town and Ilkley past and present.

    We are developing a digital record of photographs, postcards, maps and other data.   This includes planning applications for buildings from their introduction in Ilkley  in 1869.

We are investigating renamed streets, houses, lost buildings, hydros, schools, gravestones and old Ilkley families and businesses.

           We welcome people sharing information and memories about Ilkley and  we reply to any enquiries.

Have a look at the new

Local History Gallery

at the Manor House

      including photographs of Ilkley in the 1950s

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For further details please contact secretary AlexCockshott, or ring 01943 601561