Ilkley

Ilkley is a town in , part of the metropolitan borough of , with a population in 2021 of 15,000. It had a 19th-century heyday as a spa town, but the main reason to visit today is to walk the nearby countryside, especially Ilkley Moor.
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  • Type: Town with 14,800 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England
  • Also known as: “Ilkley, Bradford”, “Ilkley, West Yorkshire”, and “Olicana”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Ilkley railway station and Ilkley Moor.

Railway station
Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.
serves the town of Ilkley, in the City of Bradford, , England.

Heath
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is part of , the moorland…

Railway station
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serves the …

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Middleton-on-Wharfe and Ben Rhydding.

Village
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Middleton is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of , England.

Suburb
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is a village in the City of Bradford, , England.

Village
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is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of , England.

Ilkley

Latitude
53.9257° or 53° 55′ 33″ north
Longitude
-1.8244° or 1° 49′ 28″ west
Population
14,800
Elevation
335 feet (102 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB ILK
Open location code
9C5WW5GG+76
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20940728
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646272
Wiki­data ID
Q1020951
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ilkley” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيلكي”
  • Asturian: “Ilkley”
  • Basque: “Ilkley”
  • Bengali: “ইকলে”
  • Catalan: “Ilkley”
  • Cebuano: “Ilkley”
  • Chinese: “伊尔克利”
  • Chinese: “伊爾克利”
  • Czech: “Ilkley”
  • Dutch: “Ilkley”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايلكى”
  • Esperanto: “Ilkley”
  • French: “Ilkley”
  • German: “Ilkley”
  • Gujarati: “ઇલ્કલી”
  • Hebrew: “אילקלי”
  • Indonesian: “Ilkley”
  • Irish: “Ilkley”
  • Italian: “Ilkley”
  • Japanese: “イルクリー”
  • Kannada: “ಇಲ್ಕ್ಲಿ”
  • Korean: “일클리”
  • Ladin: “Ilkley”
  • Lithuanian: “Ilklis”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ilkley”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ilkley”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ilkley”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Yllicalēah”
  • Persian: “ایلکی”
  • Polish: “Ilkley”
  • Portuguese: “Ilkley”
  • Romanian: “Ilkley”
  • Russian: “Илкли”
  • Silesian: “Ilkley”
  • Slovenian: “Ilkley”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایلکی”
  • Spanish: “Ilkley”
  • Swedish: “Ilkley”
  • Tamil: “இளகிலே”
  • Telugu: “ఇక్లి”
  • Turkish: “Ilkley”
  • Urdu: “الکلے”
  • Volapük: “Ilkley”
  • Welsh: “Ilkley”

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