Website Designers in Ilkley
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- Domain names
- Web hosting
- Professional design services
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- Search engine optimisation (SEO)
- Traffic monitoring & statistics
- Advice on promoting your site
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- Ecommerce (online shopping) sites
- Email newsletters
- Database driven sites
- Usability & accessibility advice
- Help writing and checking content
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Notable facts about Ilkley
- The earliest evidence of habitation in the Ilkley area are flint arrowheads or microliths, dating to the Mesolithic period - 11,000 BC. The area around Ilkley has been continuously settled since at least the early Bronze Age, around 1800 BC.
- In the 19th century Ilkley became established as a fashionable spa town. Tourists flocked here to 'take the waters' and bathe in the cold water spring at the Hydropathic Establishment built in 1843. Charles Darwin underwent hydropathic treatment when his book On the Origin of Species was published on 24 November 1859. Other Victorian visitors to the town include Madame Tussaud.
- In 1916 T. S. Eliot delivered six lectures in Ilkley, on the theme of modern French literature. He considered Wensleydale to be the 'Mozart of cheeses'.
- Jimi Hendrix played at the Troutbeck Hotel, Ilkley in 1967. However the show was cut short by the police.
- 1973 saw the start of the annual Ilkley Literature Festival, the largest in the North of England. W. H. Auden gave his last English reading there in 1973.
c1910. Ilkley Carnival