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03 Welcome 14 The Stone 22 Long Distance Walks/ Ilkley is a former spa town Our guide also details a & Hebers Ghyll Guided Walks/ set in the magnifi cent variety of self-guided 04 Walkers are Welcome (3.5 miles) Points of Interest Dales. Surrounded walks of different gradings, by beautiful countryside, from a heritage walk 06 Darwin Walk (1 mile) 16 Nestfi eld & 24 Ilkley Ilkley offers endless around the town to a 7 mile Upper Austby opportunities to enjoy the walk along the length and great outdoors. breadth of . 08 Ilkley’s Town Centre (6.5 miles) 26 Getting Here/ Blue Plaque Walk Accommodation Ilkley has recently been We hope our guide inspires (1.5 miles) 18 Length & Breadth of Information accredited Walkers are you to visit Ilkley and Ilkley Moor (7 miles) Welcome status due to its provides you with the right 10 Cow & Calf Rocks via 27 Map of Ilkley fantastic countryside, information to enjoy White Wells (3 miles) 20 Ilkley to walks for all abilities and walking in this popular and & Back (8 miles) its commitment to beautiful part of Yorkshire. welcoming walkers. Our 12 Mount Calvary Ilkley & guide gives you more & Middleton Tourism Partnership. Woods (3 miles) information on the Walkers are Welcome scheme as well as more information on why Ilkley is a Walkers are Welcome destination. walkers are welcome

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What is Walkers are Why is Ilkley a Walkers Beautiful countryside Good choice of walker Welcome (WaW)? are Welcome destination? friendly pubs and If you enjoy long distance Wharfedale is one of restaurants WaW is a community trails try the Dales Way Yorkshire’s most attractive Walks for all abilities led initiative to promote which officially starts in dales and offers impressive Ilkley has lots of towns as places that have Ilkley has walking routes Ilkley. This 80 mile walk to views in any season. walker friendly pubs something special to for all abilities. If you fancy Bowness-on-Windermere Middleton Woods is awash and restaurants who offer walkers of all kinds. a short walk, there are lots takes in the stunning with bluebells in May and welcome walking boots Towns and villages who of pleasant strolls onto countryside of Wharfedale unrivalled views of the and sometimes dogs. seek Walkers are Welcome Ilkley Moor or around and beyond and is a and Try Bar T’at which has must fulfil six criteria to Middleton Woods and the popular route for walkers beyond can be enjoyed lots of real ales as well as gain accreditation: . For a more of all abilities. from Ilkley Moor. good food (walking boots welcome) or the Cow and • Demonstrate local vigorous walk why not walk Interesting history Excellent walking Calf on Ilkley Moor. support for the concept to Addingham and back or admire the views while friendly accommodation • Gain formal endorsement walking the length and Ilkley has a long and Lots of information for the application breadth of Ilkley Moor. interesting history that There’s an abundance of Browse our guide; we’re can be discovered while quality hotels, guest Ilkley and the surrounding • Ensure that footpaths sure you’ll find a walk walking one of the routes accommodation and self district offer endless and facilities for walkers to suit you. in this guide. Ilkley Moor catering accommodation opportunities to enjoy are well maintained boasts several prehistoric in Ilkley. Several properties walking. Visit visitilkley. rock carvings, the most in the area have been com for more walks or Pathways that are kept • Market the WaW scheme famous of which are the inspected under Quality visitbradford.com for well maintained • Encourage walking via Cup and Ring stones in Tourism’s Walkers are walks in the Bradford public transport Bradford Council’s and the Swastika stone. Welcome accommodation district. Ilkley Tourist Countryside and Rights of There is also the huge inspection scheme. Information Centre also • Demonstrate how WaW Way Service (CROW) embellished Badger Stone Properties that have the sells lots of different status will be maintained. protects and maintains and the Twelve Apostles accreditation offer facilities walking guides and maps. recorded public footpaths . All of them and services for walkers and bridleways. The present unanswered such as drying rooms and Service carries out planned mysteries about the packed lunches. annual maintenance, ancient history of man vegetation clearance and on Ilkley Moor. signposting, responds to reported new issues of obstruction, encroachment, 01 02 or surface deterioration, and works with landowners to maintain and replace stiles and gates. Ilkley Moor. Moor. 0 1 Ilkley Spa Cottage. Wells 0 2 White Da rwin Walk walk 01 1 Mile (1.6km) 06 Allow 1 hour visitilkley.com 07

MAP KEY: 1. The walk starts from the 3. Beyond the monument follow a tarmac path Main Route main signboard at the far turn right through a beside a hedgerow, then end of Darwin Gardens car gateway and follow the right on a grass path Alternative park. Follow the boulder drive left to the impressive round the maze, returning Other Paths wall around to the plaque entrance of Wells House, downhill to the ‘Darwin’s Road of , beside the hydro where Charles View’ monument. Cross the Building a boulder of local sandstone Darwin stayed whilst car park, turn right to the known as . taking the ‘water cure’. pavement, and left through Bridge Fossils contained in rocks a gate, then cross Wells 4. Stream formed an essential part of Return past the blue Road and follow pavement plaque monument and Pool 4 the evidence for Darwin’s beside Crossbeck Road to theory of evolution. continue ahead along the reach the elegant front of sand path. This winds to Hillside (formerly North White WELLS HOUSE 2. Past the monument, left downhill to pass a View House), part of which Well turn right on a tarmac path pond and willow arbour, s was occupied by Charles which passes the then right to pass the‚ 5 Darwin and his family 3 Millennium Maze then ‘Millennial Vision’ viewpoint, during his stay in Ilkley. bends left to follow a and reaches the pavement hedgerow. When the path alongside Wells Road. 6. From here, a moorland forks, take the right fork Charles Darwin often track climbs to White to cross a bridge, then a walked a similar sand Wells. The town centre left fork on a sand path path at Down House, can be reached using heading uphill to reach a his home in . paths through Darwin boulder bearing an Ilkley Gardens and Mill Ghyll, 5. Civic Society blue plaque White Wells bathhouse or via Wells Road.

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Learn more about Ilkley’s Grove passing The facing you with Plaque 6 MAP KEY: history and its historic Bandstand on your left. to the left of the front door. Route 01 02 buildings on this Blue (The ground floor of the Cross Parish Ghyll Road, Road Plaques walk. This circular, Manor House is a Museum walk through Grove Garden Blue Plaque self-guided town centre tracing the history of Ilkley. with its raised sensory walk takes approximately Upstairs is an art gallery.) one hour. garden. Cross The Grove to visit the Canker Well Garden. Follow the path to the right Start the walk at Ilkley Continue along The Grove. of the Manor House and Town Hall (Station Road). behind is All Saints Church. At Regent Road turn right. Plaque 1 can be seen to (The tower was built in On your right is a former the right of the entrance. the15th century and now Hall now converted into Walk towards the town has a 1860s Potts of apartments and known as centre along Station Road clock). Turn right and walk Grove Square where you crossing Wells Road and in front of the flowerbeds will find Plaque 4 on the Wells Promenade, to the and seats to the road

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MAP KEY: This walk involves steep this wider path uphill along the side of the Main Route uphill walking over rough further onto the moor. former quarry. At the far Other Paths moorland paths, therefore Eventually the path divides, end of the quarry the path it is not suitable for the ignore the path up the divides. Take the grassy Road less mobile and pushchairs. steps to the right and path straight forward Building Sensible footwear and a continue along the path to downhill to a second Wells Bridge wind and waterproof coat the left leading to Rocky junction, again continue House to Town recommended along with Valley keeping Ilkley Crags straight forward downhill Stream Willy Hall’s P Centre Spout Darwin a light snack and drink. high on your right. where after a short Waterworks Gate and Pool Gardens Catte Grid ILKLEY MOOR Building distance several other Moorland P With the information centre At the end of Rocky Valley paths have been made White Steps Paddling Pool behind you turn left the path divides again. P Car Park Wells WELLS ROAD Rail & Bus down this very steep Station towards the town centre. Our route is downhill to Tourist hillside. Here the choice is Shelter Information After approximately 200 the left, where straight yours as the paths make Steps C Centre R Apartments yards turn left up Wells ahead in the middle O their way down to the S Road. Continue uphill for distance, the top outline S B small footbridge below. E quite some distance to the of the “Cow” rock can be

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Steps junction with Crossbeck seen. Continue along this Tarn R D follow the footpath straight O A Ilkley A Road. Here cross over path as it descends down Tarn D forward. After Crossbeck Road diagonally to Backstone Beck, cross URE RO T approximately 150 yards S to the left onto a small car over the beck to follow the PA the path divides again, W O parking area at the side of path straightforward C follow the footpath straight Ilkley an apartment block. passing on your right a Crags Rocky forward downhill between Valley single large boulder. the small tree on the left Walk across the parking Further down where the Stone area to the two gates and the large stone on the path levels out another right to eventually emerge ahead. Go through the path crosses from left to small gate on the right and onto the surfaced path at right, (remember this the lower tarn. up the steps, between the junction as you will pass it paddling pool on the right again on your return walk). Walk round either side Rocks and the shelter to the left, Walk straight forward to of the tarn to the far end to follow the path steeply your destination the to follow the surfaced uphill to White Wells Bath Large Quaries Cow & Calf Rocks. path downhill, through (disused) House high on the moor Boulder the gate, cross over (White Wells is open to Please take great care Quaries Crossbeck Road turning (disused) 01 view the Plunge Pool and whilst walking amongst right down Wells Road for refreshments when the the rocks and along the Cow and back to your starting point. Calf Rocks flags are flying). Continue edge of the quarry. Please S W uphill via the steps to the ensure that children are P left and rear of the building supervised at all times. E ? to join a wider path behind To return, retrace your North the small group of trees above. Turn left following steps to where the footpaths crossed on the moorland 0 metres 25 behind the “Cow” rock to ? Hotel take the path to the right Cow & Calf Rocks. 0 1 Cow mount calvary & myddelton woods walk 04 3 Miles (4.8km) 12 13 Allow 2 hours 30 mins visitilkley.com

Suitable for the casual surfaced road sharp right enter the wood the path MAP KEY: S W walker. Not suitable for uphill, signed High Austby divides. Our route follows Main Route High Austby Farm E the less mobile. Sensible Farm to walk between the wide track to the left Other Paths ? footwear, waterproof fields on your left and the across a stream. After 200 Signposted North Middleton clothing and a light woodland of Terrace Gill yards look out on the right Road Building snack recommended. on your right. Follow this for a narrow woodland 0 metres 25 road until you reach an path noticeable by a large Bridge ? With the TIC behind you obvious T-junction where stone at its entrance. Turn Calvary turn left along Station Stream the road goes left and is right off the main path to Austby Tivoli Road towards the town. joined from the right descend through the After 200 yards turn right, Drive to by a track signposted woodland. Follow this path Austby cross the road at the zebra ‘Middleton’. Take the track, down two flights of steps, crossing, turn left and passing a house on the across a bridge, along immediately right to walk right called ‘Tivoli’. Look boardwalks, down steps Terrace down Brook Street to the Gill Myddelton to your left for a wooden and through the metal gate Lodge traffic lights at the bottom. gate, 250 yards beyond the onto a road. Continue by crossing the house. This is the entrance road to walk straight to Calvary, where you will Continue by crossing the forward down the left-hand road diagonally to the left E find a series of carved Electricity AN Sub-Station S L The side of New Brook Street. to go down the steps onto NG Hollies stone Italian sculptures. DI the car park of Ilkley Lido. HAR After 200 yards, just before Follow the track forward Walk forward with the Fence the road bridge over the turning right at the end to buildings on your left and 01 river, look out for the steps walk downhill passing a few across the grass to a gap on your left. Go down these cottages on the left, before in the fence. Go through Large Stone steps to walk parallel to the turning left at the bottom to the gap, cross the road to Steps Boardwalks river, passing the Riverside join the surfaced road to the gap opposite, through Hotel to the steps up to the the new buildings at the second gap and follow Steps Middleton Woods stone bridge. Myddelton Lodge. Continue the field boundary forward straight forward to join to the river bank. Turn Ilkley Old Stone Turn right, walk across the Bridge (circa 1675) C NE URLY ILL bridge, turning left on the Hardings Lane at the right to the bridge and up SF H IEL D opposite side of the river to T-junction, turning left to the ramp at the side of the Public House RO and Cafe AD Cricket

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right at the junction the bridge to return the Swimming riverbank to emerge onto Children’s ON Pools Riverside R signposted ‘Middleton’. After starting point. Play Area Gardens Rugby OA Nesfield Road. Cross the Ground D road to turn next left up a short distance and just 02 Manor House Owler Park Road. (Don’t be beyond the house on the Steps put off by the Private Road right, look out for the stile ILKLEY TOWN sign). Continue uphill to over the fence into the field. Skateboard CENTRE Area what appears to be a dead Go over the stile and Traffic Lights end at the entrance to the heading to the left of the drive to Austby. Follow the Rail & large tree at the bottom Bus Station end of the field look out for Zebra Crossing the stile in the fence into Tourist Information Middleton Woods. As you Centre Middleton Woods. Woods. 0 1 Middleton Woods. 0 2 Middleton the swastika stone & hebers ghyll walk 05 3.5 Miles (5.6km) 14 Allow 2 hours 30 mins visitilkley.com 15

MAP KEY: S This walk involves steep Turn left uphill (known off the path down the W Main Route uphill walking and rough locally as Weary Hill). less well defined path Swastika E ? wood and moorland paths, Continue uphill to turn diagonally heading towards Other Paths Stone North therefore it is not suitable right off the road, as it the trees and reservoir. Road for the less mobile and levels out after the steep After a short distance the Building 0 metres 25 pushchairs. Sensible climb. Follow the well- path joins several other ? footwear and wind and defined footpath along the paths under the trees near Bridge Black Beck Hebers Stream Ghyll waterproof clothing is edge of Ilkley Moor keeping a footbridge and a metal recommended along with the houses on the right and gate. This is the top end Pool a light snack and drink. moorland to the left. of Hebers Ghyll and to Follow this path for quite continue your walk go With the information H E some distance, almost to through the metal gate Reservoir B E centre behind you turn R the last house on the right. and follow the path as it S

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Suitable for reasonably The path then goes left cottages, before turning left MAP KEY: S W fit. Sensible footwear, diagonally across (head for at the bottom to join the Main Route waterproof clothing and the electricity pole), to entrance road to buildings E Other Paths ? food recommended. another stile. Go through at Myddelton Lodge. Upper North the stile, onto the road, Road Dean Beck Austby Starting at the TIC, turn left turning right to Nesfield. Continue straight on to join Stile along Station Road. Turn Hardings Lane at the T- 0 metres 25 right across the zebra On entering the village junction, turning left to Building ? Nesfield Ling crossing, turn left and the road divides. Take follow the road as it bears Bridge Park immediately right to walk the road to the right and right at the junction Stream down Brook Street to the after a short distance, signposted ‘Middleton’. Pool High Austby traffic lights. Cross the take another right through After a short distance, just Farm road and walk down the left a gate signed ‘Dean Farm’. beyond the house on the Lower hand side of New Brook Follow the farm track right look out for the stile. Austby Street. After 200 yards, uphill, past the farm Once over the stile walk to

before the road bridge, look buildings on the left. the left of the large tree at Primrose Hill for the steps on the left. Go The path then leaves the the bottom of the field for N E Calvary S F down the steps and follow track, bearing left uphill another stile into Middleton I Austby E L D the river, past the Riverside to go through a metal Woods. The path divides, so R Owler O A Park Hotel to the stone bridge. gate passing the stone follow the wide track to the Green Keepers D built house. left across a stream. Walk Buildings Walk across the bridge, along this track for 200 OWLER turning left walk along the Continue to where the path Terrace yards. Look for a narrow Gill unmade path, emerging on divides again, following the Ilkley Ilkley PARK ROAD

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marked by a large stone at V Club E NE here and cross over to the climbing to reach another R LA The its entrance. Turn right and S W G Hollies right-hand side of the road gate. Go through the gate H IN A HARD start your descent through R Fence F facing on-coming traffic. bearing right onto the the woodland, down two E Continue along Nesfield driveway in front of the Electricity Large Stone flights of steps, across a Sub-Station Road, passing Ilkley Golf stone house. Walk straight bridge, along boardwalks, Club and the green ahead along the drive down steps and through a Boardwalks Steps Steps keeper’s buildings on the between the farm building gate onto a road. Middleton left. After this the road and yard to emerge onto Woods turns sharp right. Look out the road. Cross the road on the left L Ilkley Old Stone CURLY HIL for two gates in the fence diagonally and go down the Bridge (circa 1675) Turn right passing ‘Ling D on the left. Go through the steps to Ilkley Lido’s car Public House EN and Cafe TO Park Cottage’ and some N R smallest gate, walk park. Walk straight forward, 02 OAD Swimming Pools straight across the golf farm buildings. Walk along cross the grass to a gap in Children’s Riverside Rugby the road for approximately Play Area Gardens Ground links to another gate, which the fence. Go through the Manor House is straight ahead. 0.25 mile to where the road gap, cross the road to the Steps starts to bear left and look gap opposite, go through Once through the gate, for a gate on the right. Go Road Bridge Skateboard and follow the field ILKLEY Area continue straight ahead to through the gate, downhill TOWN boundary to the riverbank. CENTRE a stile; go through the stile across the fields through Rail & Turn right to the bridge, Bus Station and cross the road three more gates to join an cross the bridge, returning diagonally to the left and up unmade road. Continue to the starting point. Tourist the verge to a second stile. downhill, passing some Information Centre Old Bridge over River Wharfe. Wharfe. River 0 1 Old Bridge over Woods. 0 2 Middleton length & breadth of ilkley moor walk 07 7 Miles (11.2km) circular walk with a shorter circular option 18 5.75 Miles (9.2km) visitilkley.com 19

MAP KEY: Suitable for reasonably Over this wall the path miles to Ashlar Chair Main Route fit. Sturdy footwear, divides through the trees, passing Whetstone Gate Standing Wall Short Cut Option Boundary outdoors clothing and take either paths to the and Thimble Stones. Stone packed lunch advisable. fourth wall. Use the stile or At Ashlar Chair (a large Other Paths Rivock Plantation Shepherds go through a broken stone and two gateways in Hill Walk onto Wells Road, Road Pipers section of the wall to the the dry stone wall on your Crag turning right uphill. At the Stile/Gate/Gap Shooting stile in wall no. 5, next to a right), turn sharp left, Butts top, the road divides; take large stone at Piper’s Crag. follow the path away from Boundary Wall the left ( Road), West Buck Once over wall no. 5 the wall and across the Boundary Stone Stones walk uphill to the top of the Crawshaw Moss continue straight ahead to moor heading towards the Building first incline where the road the gated gap in wall no.6. early warning radar golf Boundary levels out. Turn right, Bridge Wall Go through the gate, leave balls. After a short follow the footpath across East Buck Swastika the path and bear left to distance the path descends Stream Stones Stone the grass, over a footbridge walk diagonally across to a towards Ilkley. The path Wet Areas and walk parallel to the stile in the wall at the top becomes less defined; houses, through a field right hand side. continue downhill to a gate along the way. 175 I L better-used path. Here KLEY RD Heber Moss yards beyond the gate turn Once over the stile the turn left, walk downhill Black left, adjacent to two gates faint path bears slightly to Beck Hebers along the well-worn path, Cowper’s Ghyll in the wall on your right. your left. Walk up towards Cross over the boardwalks to an Wireless the skyline, parallel to the Station Panoramic Continue uphill across the obvious intersection of Reservoir shooting butts, which can paths at Ilkley Crags Whetstone Silver Well moor as it bears right and Cottage be seen to your left. At the Gate K eventually divides. Take the overlooking Ilkley. Bear EI GH top it levels out. Walk L slightly to your left and E Weary path to the left; walk over a Y straight ahead to the Morton Moor R Hill down a flight of steps. At O footbridge and onto a field A boundary wall of the tree Stone D gate. Through the gate the the bottom continue down flagged path plantation. Once here turn the wide path until you rough path will lead you on left, follow the wall on Thimble reach trees on your right. Stones to the Swastika Stone. WESTWOOD DR your right and up the From here continue Beyond the trees leave the incline to the top of West main path by turning right straight ahead along the Buck Stones. Then turn Boundary escarpment of the moor, down the much narrower Wall left, follow the wall on your until you reach a stile in path leading to the rear of W right for 0.5 mile passing Cattle Grid Ilkley Hydro White Wells. (now residential) the wall (from here it’s East Buck Stones, until you S North Ilkley Moor important to count the Toilets reach a wide road which is At the back of White Wells E Walk Start Point walls you cross to ensure Darwin Gardens car park the top end of the Keighley turn right, then left down Trig Point that you find the correct (402m) Road (here you can cut the steps to the side of the LS RD route). Climb over the stile 0 metres 25 White Wells WEL short your walk. Turn left, building before walking Spa Cottage and continue a short ? Shelter walk down Keighley Road down the footpath to Wells Steps Paddling distance before crossing a Pool to Wells Road where Road car park. Cattle broken down wall (no. 2). Grid you started). Steps Now follow the wall on Ashlar Gate Boardwalks your right all the way For the full walk, cross Rocky across the field to the third over Keighley Road, follow Valley wall to find the stile in the the path adjacent to the Ilkley Cragg corner by a small building. wall on your right for 1.5 ilkley to addingham and back walk 08 8.2 Miles (13.2km) 20 21 Allow 3.5 – 4 hours visitilkley.com

Sturdy footwear, waterproof Beacon is Heber’s Ghyll is a MAP KEY: clothing and a packed lunch prominent and beyond, delightful wooded ravine, Main Route is advisable. An OS map the winding dale is flanked laid out with interesting ADDINGHAM Toilets Other Paths may be of assistance on by Barden Moor and Fell. walks and stepped ways, Gate in fence this route. To the east, the lower and provides an alternative Road hidden below bank MAIN STREET beyond trees Dale can be seen, flanked route into Ilkley through Building STOCKHINGER Street Farm LANE Fine though the riverside Small by Almscliffe Crag and some of the grander Bridge Buses Dales Way path may be it Banks Fence P ridge, merging mansions of llkley’s Farm Stream cannot compare for distant Throstle A65 gradually into the Plain suburbs built on the Nest views with the suggested of . wealth of Bradford’s once return route. thriving wool industry. MOORSIDE The path along the top LANE The path through Throstle of the Moor is once again The observant may notice a ADDINGHAM Nest and Small Banks is part of the ancient Bronze rather incongruous feature MOORSIDE especially lovely with the Age track route across the on the way; the remains of delightful hidden gill by which continues a one-time golf course on Bus Stops Quiet Rd Weir Throstle Nest. This route on to Ilkley Moor and the moor with levelled Cragg House crosses the old Roman Farm River The Chevin. “greens” cut out of Wharfe Road to Ilkley just before the slope. Road Throstle Nest, the nearby The Swastika Stone by Addingham uiet High Moor Q farm named Street being Woodhouse Crag is one of In the town, do not Cocking Golf Course an important clue to the the most famous Bronze overlook the delightful End W 5

existence of an old paved Age features in the path by the stream, like North A6 Buses road in Anglian times. Pennines, being a crudely Heber’s Ghyll on a gentler Red Beck S carved rendering of the scale, rather than the E Careful attention to the ancient Indo-European obvious Wells Road. map is advisable between good luck symbol, common Stockinger Lane end and to ancient cultures long Route supplied by Colin 0 1/4 1/2m the Moor edge to avoid Speakman, from his book Swastika before its defilement by Woodhouse Stone going astray at the many Nazi criminals during the Dales Way Route Guide Crag turns and path junctions. 1930s and the Second with Associated Walks by River Arthur Gemmell and Colin Wharfe The stiff climb, relieved World War. Its flowing, ROMBALDS Farm Speakman. Colin has MOOR Heber’s by a level stretch at moving shape suggests Ghyll written many walking Sports the continuity of movement Centre Addingham Moorside, guides and books, which can be further relieved perhaps of life itself, and no doubt was to frighten are available in Ilkley by frequent pauses to Tourist Information Centre. 01 Edge of Moor admire the unfolding evil spirits away from Old Bridge Toilets retrospective views. travellers along that lonely route; not unlike, perhaps, Museum On arrival at the Moor edge the wayside crosses and the walker is rewarded, shrines to be found ILKLEY in good conditions, with through Alpine passes. P Toilets a superb panorama into College Station Upper Wharfedale. ILKLEY MOOR Buses Cow & Calf Rocks. 0 1 Cow long distance walks/ points of interest/ guided walks

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long distance walks Points of interest White Wells Middleton Woods If you enjoy a long walk Location: Location: Ilkley Moor Location: Off Denton Road Cow and Calf Rocks or enjoy following national to Ilkley near the River Wharfe trails why not try one White Wells was instrumental Distance: 70 miles Location: Ilkley Moor of the following routes, in establishing Ilkley as a Middleton Woods is famous which include, or are High on Ilkley Moor the spa town. A number of for its colourful bluebells Linking the Way large hydros were built in that covers the wood close to Ilkley: with the Dales Way, this Cow and Calf Rocks are a large rock formation the Ilkley area during the floor in May and it’s a route from Helmsley to 19th century where people popular place for walking Dales Way consisting of an outcrop Ilkley provides an could come to “take the and picnics. interesting walk across the and boulder, also known as Location: Official start waters”, believing all Pennines, passing through Hangingstone Rocks. point Ilkley to Bowness- manner of aliments could Guided walks the historic of York. The rocks are made of on-Windermere millstone grit, a variety of be cured. Charles Darwin ldwa.org.uk sandstone, and are so visited Ilkley in 1859 and is Bradford Council’s Distance: 80 miles named because one is believed to have “taken the Countryside Service run a regular programme of Bradford Millennium Way large, with the smaller one waters” at White Wells. The Dales Way is a long guided walks, some of distance footpath of about sitting close to it, like a Today White Wells is a Location: Starting point which include Ilkley. Visit 80 miles (129 km) which cow and calf. The rocks popular café and bathers Bracken Hall, are a great place to climb can still use the plunge their website or check starts from Ilkley to visitbradford.com and the moor offers pool at certain times of for Bowness-on-Windermere. Distance: 45 miles more information. The route follows as far as spectacular views of the year! The café is open possible riverside paths The Bradford Millennium Ilkley and beyond. to the public whenever bradford.gov.uk/ and offers a scenically Way is a 45 mile circular you see the flag flying countryside or attractive route from walk encompassing much on the building. visitbradford.com to the of the idyllic countryside . that surrounds the and includes dalesway.org.uk the beautiful countryside of Ilkley & Wharfedale.

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Set within Wharfedale, As well as excellent and afternoon tea is Bettys Ilkley is the perfect place attractions, Ilkley also has Café & Tearooms, a for a holiday with its an interesting events Yorkshire institution magnificent countryside, programme. Highlights serving Swiss-Yorkshire fantastic restaurants and include the Ilkley Summer inspired fare. abundance of comfortable Festival in August and the accommodation. Ilkley Literature Festival Nearby there are lots of in October. The Ilkley interesting towns and Ilkley offers magnificent Literature Festival is villages and for those who walking and countryside as one of the north’s most enjoy shopping, theatre well as plenty of prestigious literature and culture the cities of opportunities for a fun day festivals and attracts the Bradford and Leeds are Manor House out. Visit the , best from the worlds of also a short distance by a local museum which, literature and entertainment. frequent train service. stands on the remains of Headline acts have Roman fort of Olicana To book your next the . included Jeremy Paxman, Only a short section of holiday in Ilkley visit , Will Self and visitilkley.com for defensive wall remains Cherie Blair. exposed at the back of the a great choice of hotels, building, but Roman Spend an evening relaxing guest houses and self artefacts from the fort and and enjoying good food catering accommodation. surrounding area are on and drink in one of the permanent display as well many bars, pubs and as a changing programme restaurants. Michelin star of exhibitions. Alternatively restaurants also feature in visit estate Ilkley, with the Box Tree in and jump on the Embsay & Ilkley or the Burlington at Bolton Abbey Steam the Devonshire Arms, Railway a fantastic steam Bolton Abbey, only a short railway through the drive away. Another Yorkshire Dales. popular choice for lunch

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