News & Blog
Moorland Flower & Plants Walk
Good weather helped to make a successful Friends of Ilkley Moor moorland flower and plants walk. The ninth event in this years Events & Learning Programme, the walk led by Bruce Brown from the Wharfedale Naturalist Society, covered detailed information of flowers...
Work Has Started To Restore Damage to Moor
After damage done during filming of Emmerdale TV soap, restoration work has begun to re-surface the track from opposite the Cow & Calf Hotel and the footpath route leading towards Backstone Beck, a total length of approximately 500 metres. The total cost of the...
The Friends of Ilkley Moor Launch The First of 20 Events
The first of 20 Events organised by The Fiends of Ilkley Moor started on Saturday, 12 May. The Moorland Bird Walk led by Ernie Scarfe of Wharfedale Naturalists Society set off in the morning at 9am in glorious sunshine from White Wells, on the path to Hebers Ghyll,...
£50,000 WREN Funding Secured
31 March 2012: The Friends of Ilkley Moor have received £50,000 funding from WREN, a not-for-profit business that awards grants to community projects from funds donated by Waste Recycling Environmental Group. Tracy Gray, the Friends Project Officer said “This is...
“Blowing our own Trumpet”
The Friends of Ilkley Moor are celebrating their fifth anniversary. Since their inception they have published four Events and Learning Programmes with the help of the programmes the Friends Project Officer Tracy Gray has oraganised over eighty events including Bat and...
Three Hundred and Seventy Metres of Pathway Renovated
Bradford Council Countryside Service Team have restored and resurfaced 370 metres of pathway through Heber’s Ghyll Wood. Workers from the Countryside Service Team, assisted by volunteers, also carried our improvements to the drainage, and erected new wood benches on...
‘Treasure Hunt’ on Ilkley Moor
Children and adults discovered Ilkley Moor through a geocaching event on Saturday the 13th. The event was carried out in partnership by the Friends of Ilkley Moor and Pennine Prospects. One of twenty events organised by the Friends from May to September. Geocaching is...
Painting of Cup & Ring Stones
Concern has been expressed that some person or persons unknown has been painting cup and ring stones recently. The first time we became aware of this was when, some years ago, the cup and ring stone in the wood above Willy Hall's Spout was painted with red paint....
FoIM revises its policy towards shooting on Ilkley Moor
In 1893, the Ilkley Local Board bought Ilkley Moor from Marmaduke Francis Middleton for the then enormous sum of £13,500. The reason for the purchase was that there was seen to be a conflict between the shooting interests (represented by Middleton) and the rights of...
70 stunning new images launched
Over 70 stunning images of Ilkley Moor have been launched on The Friends of Ilkley Moor Website Gallery. Said Owen Wells (Chair of The Friends) “Enjoy the visual splendour of Ilkley Moor by browsing our gallery of photographs. All the images can be downloaded in high...
Dogs on the Moor
These notes cover the whole of Rombalds Moor, not just the area that is the concern of the Friends of Ilkley Moor, as any dog walker starting a walk on Ilkley Moor, may easily end up on one of the adjacent moors. Good Practice & Legal Requirements GOOD PRACTICE...