Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ilkley. You may be able to find further references to Ilkley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
ILKLEY	a village and a township	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Ilkley.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Langbar	hamlet	Bartholomew
LANGBAR	a hamlet	Imperial
Middleton	township	Bartholomew
MIDDLETON	a township	Imperial
Nesfield with Langbar	township	Bartholomew
NESFIELD-WITH-LANGBAR	a township	Imperial
Stockhill	village	Bartholomew
STOCKHILL	a village	Imperial
Wheatley	hamlet	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Ilkley within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Yorkshire: West Riding	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Ben Rhydding	0	2
Burley in Wharfedale	0	2
Middleton	0	2
Denton	0	2
Nesfield	0	2
Morton	0	2
Menston	0	2
Hawksworth	0	2
Askwith	0	1
Weston	0	2
Addingham	0	2
Langbar	0	2
Riddlesden	0	2
Rombalds Moor	0	3
Clifton	0	2
Beamsley	1	2
Wharfedale	0	2
Baildon	1	2
Silsden	0	2
Newall	0	2