GENUKI: Ilkley

The Ancient Parish of ILKLEY

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"ILKLEY, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Skyrack; 6 miles WNW. of Otley and Keighley, 9 from Skipton, 34 from York. Pop. 496. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of Craven, value, ~£7. 13s. 9d. p.r. !£56. 1s. 6d. Patron, George Hartley, Esq." (There is further information for Ilkley).

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Ausby
Ben Rhydding
Clay Hill
Hanging Stones
Holling Hall
Langbar
Middleton

Moor Houses
Myddleton Lodge
Nesfield
Ramsgill
Stockhill
Wheatley

Churches

Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
- All Saints Church, Ilkley (view 1).
  - Internal view looking down the nave
  - Internal view looking westwards up the nave
- All Saints Church, Ilkley (view 2).
- The First Church of Christ Scientist, Ilkley.
- St. Margaret's Church, Ilkley.
  - Internal view looking down the nave
  - The East Window and the reredos
  - The West window
- The Baptist Church, Ilkley.
- Christ Church (Methodist and U.R.C.), Ilkley (view 1). (The Church's website is here.)
  - Internal view looking down the nave
- Christ Church (Methodist/URC), Ilkley (view 2).
- The Church of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Ilkley.
- The Quaker's Meeting house, Ilkley. (The Church's website is here.)
- St. John the Evangelist's Church, Ben Rhydding (view 1). (The Church's website is here.)
- St. John the Evangelist's Church, Ben Rhydding (view 2).
  - Internal view looking down the nave
- The Methodist Church, Ben Rhydding.

Church History

A transcription of Ilkley Baptist Church History
Transcript of the entry for Ilkley in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".

Church Records

The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Ilkley.
The list of Vicars in St. Margaret's Church 1879-1989.
The list of Incumbents for St. John's Church, Ben Rhydding.

Description and Travel

The Ilkley Pages.
Garry Stockdill's Yorksview website contains a description and photographs of Ilkley.

Directories

Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.

Gazetteers

There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
There is further information about this parish from the Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer 1750, Yorkshire extracts.

Maps

For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.

Memorial Inscriptions

The War Memorial Plaque for the 1914-1918 War in All Saints Church, Ilkley.
The World War I Memorial at Ilkley.
The 1939-45 War Memorial at Ilkley.
The memorial plaques in the church to those who fell in the two world wars.
The memorial Plaque for William Sutton Smeeth at Ben Rhydding; on the inside church wall

Societies

This parish is covered by the following Society:
- Airedale & Wharfedale FHS

Taxation

A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.

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