Otley's direct connection to the railway network closed in 1967, however, a regular bus service (967) runs from Menston station, which is on the Wharfedale Line from Leeds, Bradford and Ilkley, and the 653 bus service stops at Weeton station on the Harrogate Line from Leeds and Harrogate.
Otley and Wharfedale ward has a population of 24,000, and Otley itself has a population of 14,100, according to Census 2001.
757: Leeds - Leeds Bradford International Airport - Pool - Otley
The railway, before the Beeching axe, also connected to Addingham, Bolton Abbey, and Skipton to the west, and to Otley, Pool-in-Wharfedale, meeting the main Leeds to Harrogate line at Arthington.
Nearby villages are Denton, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Bolton Abbey, Middleton, Addingham, and Addingham Moorside.
The area around Ilkley has been continuously settled since at least the early Bronze Age, around 1800 BC; cup and ring markings, and swastika carvings dating to the period have been found on rock outcrops, and archaeological remains of dwellings are found on the moor.
Owen Brear had a welcome distraction from his revision for A-levels this summer when he was strolling through Pool on 31st May and suddenly saw a squawking ring-necked parakeet sitting on a conifer in the new Hollies housing estate.
Parakeets are building thriving colonies in parks and gardens.
Originally they flourished in suburbs where they relied on food in bird feeders, but they are now moving into the countryside and feeding on fruit, nuts, berries, seeds and tree buds.
PROBLEMS inPool-in-Wharfedale could be tackled by village groups and organisations coming together and forming a community forum, it has been claimed.
ERMYSTED'S Grammar School, Skipton, has announced ambitious plans to build a new £1 million classroom block to create invaluable learning space for its growing number of pupils.
ESSENTIAL services for elderly Menston people are being moved from a popular day centre this week, and moving to a revamped village hall.
Other poor performers are:Sappi Europe, Blackburn, JR Crompton, Lydney St Regis, Sudbrook, Rigid Paper, Selby lnveresk, Bathgate, Charles Turner, Whiteley PoolinWharfedale, St Regis, Hollins, Shotton Paper, Deeside, BPB Purfleets, Donside Paper Company, Aberdeen, St Regis, Kemsley, James Cropper.
Union reps from all these companies are to be brought together later this month to discuss how to win agreements on improvements.
Kendal, Papermarc (ex Smurfit) Burnley, St Regis, Wansborough, Kimberley Clark, Barrow and UK Paper in Kemsley.
and Pool-in-Wharfedale feature, followed by Harrogate, which in 1964 was a busy rail centre, handling both freight and passenger traffic.
However, in 1962, a decision by the Scottish Region of British Railways to employ the A4s on the tightly-timed 3-hour expresses between Aberdeen, Perth and Glasgow gave many of the class a new lease of life.
Sadly, Eddie Stanbridge died in 2001, but his legacy is a superb film record of a locomotive class that, for many, represented the epitome of British steam locomotive design.
THE opening of Ilkley's open air swimming pool has been postponed for the first time because of the heavy rain over the past two weeks.
A COLLEGE centre in Burley-in-Wharfedale is to close its doors and Ilkley students will be forced to pay higher course fees in a round of cash cutbacks.
His masterpiece was one of the main talking points at an exhibition of work that he and his fellow students have submitted for their examinations.
Also covers the adjoining lines to Arthington (NER), Yeadon, Shipley and Apperley Jcn (Midland Rly), the High Royds Hospital Railway and the 3ft 6in gauge Pool Quarry rly.
[Wetherby in the 1940s, The Wensleydale Line, A Wharfedale Junction, 67253 at Pateley Bridge]
The Leeds Northern, Nidd Valley and Wetherby Lines
Published and promoted by Leeds Liberal Democrats, Chapel House, Manor Gardens, Pool-in-Wharfedale, LS21 1NB.
The result of the consultation was an agreement that the revised budget of £75,000 (to be used before 31 March 2006) should be spent on the items outlined by Mr Duff*.
Nathan, who hails from Gipton, East Leeds is set to compete in this year's Karate World Championships representing England in both Kata and free style fighting.
Towns and villages inWharfedale (in order, travelling downstream, from west to east) include Kettlewell, Grassington, Ilkley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Otley, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Arthington, Collingham, and Wetherby.
Leeds and Bradford International Airport, Eccup, Newall With Clifton, Adel, Otley, PoolinWharfedale, Farnley, Lindley, Castley, Old Bramhope, Arthington, Bramhope, Leathley, Huby (Harrogate), Braythorn, Stainburn, Little London, East Carlton, Newall, West Park, Scotland, Guiseley, Park Gate, Rawdon, West End, Troy, Yeadon, Horsforth
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