Ben Rhydding
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Ben Rhydding is a Wharfedale village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It is part of the Ilkley urban area and civil parish.
It is situated on a north-facing valley beneath the Cow and Calf Rocks and above and to the south of the River Wharfe, and falls within the historic West Riding of Yorkshire.
In the 19th century it was noted for a popular and thoroughly equipped hydropathic establishment, opened in about 1845 at a cost of £30,000. The Ben Rhydding name derives from the hydro and had no local antecedents; the area was previously known as Wheatley.
Ben Rhydding is nowadays a mainly affluent residential area of Ilkley, served by a railway station, but relying in the main on the town for shopping and civic facilities. It is well within the travel to work area of Bradford and Leeds.
[edit] External links
- Ben Rhydding described in Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland, 1861, from Google Book Search
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