Retail in Exley Head
There are great places to visit near Exley Head including some great cities, villages, woodlands, parks, historic buildings, museums, gardens, country parks, hiking areas, towns, lakes, historic monuments, hills, ancient sites, nature reserves, shopping centres, airports, bluebell woods, ruins, rivers and streams, castles, waterfalls and boroughs.
Exley Head has some unmissable cities nearby like Bradford, Leeds, and Wakefield.
Wyke, Haworth, Oxenhope, Thornton, Manningham, Saltaire, and Ripponden are some of Exley Head best villages to visit near Exley Head.
Judy Woods, Chevin Forest Park, Middleton Park, and Hardcastle Crags are some of Exley Head best woodlands to visit near Exley Head.
Lister Park, Cartwright Hall Gardens, Peel Park, Shibden Park, Roundhay Park, Middleton Park, and Park Square are great places to visit near Exley Head if you like parks.
Don't miss Cartwright Hall, Hewenden Viaduct, Halifax Town Hall, North Bridge - Halifax, Halifax Minister, Wainhouse Tower, and Shibden Park's historic buildings if visiting the area around Exley Head.
Cartwright Hall, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park are some of Exley Head best museums to visit near Exley Head.
Cartwright Hall Gardens is a great place to visit close to Exley Head if you like gardens.
Don't miss Penistone Hill Country Park, Ogden Water Country Park, Shibden Country Park, Chevin Forest Park, Golden Acre Park, Bretton Country Park, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park's country parks if visiting the area around Exley Head.
Exley Head's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Penistone Hill Country Park, Colden, The Chevin, Hardcastle Crags, and Withens Clough.
Exley Head has some unmissable towns nearby like Ilkley, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, Todmorden, Huddersfield, Bradley, and Otley.
Don't miss Boothwood Reservoir, Ogden Water Country Park, Ogden Water, Shibden Park, Light Hazzles Reservoir, Warland Reservoir, and Gaddings Dam's lakes if visiting the area around Exley Head.
Wainhouse Tower, and Centre Hill Beacon Site are great places to visit near Exley Head if you like historic monuments.
Hills to visit near Exley Head include Centre Hill, Stoodley Pike, and The Chevin.
The area around Exley Head features a number of interesting ancient sites including Stones Lane Standing Stones, and Centre Hill Beacon Site.
There are a number of nature reserves near Exley Head including Rodley Nature Reserve, RSPB St Aidan's, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
The area around Exley Head features a number of interesting shopping centres including Trinity Leeds, White Rose Shopping Centre, The Merrion Centre, County Arcade, and Leeds Kirkgate Market.
There are a number of airports near to Exley Head including Leeds Bradford Airport.
The area close to Exley Head boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Middleton Park.
Ruins to visit near Exley Head include Kirkstall Abbey, and Sandal Castle.
There are a number of rivers and streams near Exley Head including River Dearne at Bretton, Hebden Water, and Hebden Beck.
There are a several good castles in the area around Exley Head like Sandal Castle.
Greenwood Lee Clough Waterfall is one of Exley Head's best, nearby waterfalls to visit in Exley Head.
The area close to Exley Head boasts some of the best boroughs including Kirklees.
Exley Head History
There are some historic monuments around Exley Head:
- Rock with shallow cup and ring-markings at the western end of the ridge on Stanbury Hill
- Low Moor round barrow
- Prominent cup-marked rock east of track, north east of Stanbury Hill
- Rock with three cup marks 150m south west of Black Beck Hole
- Five carved rocks in Cottingley Woods, 600m NNE of Lee Farm
- Cup marked rock east of entrance to Silver Well Cottage
- Carved rock known as the Swastika Stone
- Large carved rock at hill top, north east of line of stone grouse butts on Rivock
- Carved rock known as the Badger Stone
- Five carved rocks near the edge of Rivock outcrop
- Carved rock 100m north east of eastern Grainings Head Quarry
- Cup, ring and groove marked rock at the base of a wall between East Morton and West Morton
- Round barrow 500ft (150m) NNW of Marchup Plantation in Parson's Lane
- Prominent cup and ring marked rock on Coarse Stone Edge
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement known as Catstones Ring on Catstones Hill
- Medieval settlement and part of the open field system immediately south of Myddleton Lodge
- Cup and ring marked rock in wall at High Snaygill 80m east of High Laithe
- Two carved rocks near Neb Stone
- Carved rock incorporated in and extending beyond outbuilding at Hardwick House Farm
- Two cup and ring marked rocks in conifer plantation on Rivock
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement 150m north of Shaygate Farm, Wilsden
- Rock in Panorama Woods with single cup and ring carving
- Cairn 290m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor
- Rock with dense concentration of cup marks on Stanbury Hill
- Carved rock in wall of grounds of Overdale Nursing Home
- Rock with at least one cup mark 310m east of Cawder Hall Farm
- Cup and groove marked rock on slope south of Delves Beck 870m east of Moor End Farm, Middleton Moor
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement known as Castle Stead Ring
- Cup and ring-marked rock north east of a wall junction on the southern flank of Rivock
- Carved rock 80m NNE of Badger Stone
- Cup and groove marked rock between East Morton and West Morton
- Kildwick Bridge
- Carved rock known as the Anvil Rock
- Cup and groove-marked rock on Rivock, west of a deep channel
- Rock with one cup at the base of a wall, 250m NNE of Cawder Hall Farm, Horse Close Hill
- Five carved rocks grouped between Dryas Dike and Delves Beck 840m ESE of Blackhill House, Middleton Moor
- Cup and ring marked rock below Addingham Crag
- Cup and ring marked rock overlooking bend in Ilkley-Keighley road, 185m south east of Neb Stone
- Cup and ring marked rock known as the Sepulchre Stone, Addingham Moorside
- Old Bridge
- Prominent rock with one cup mark at apex on ridge between Dryas Dike and Delves Beck 830m ESE of Blackhill House, Middleton Moor
- Cup and ring marked rock between Keighley Gate and Silver Well Cottage
- Cup marked rock just within afforested area north east of wall on Rivock
- Six carved rocks in field west of Riddlesden Golf Course
- Cup and ring marked rock between Spicey Gill and the Ilkley-Keighley road
- Carved rock on bank at side of track opposite Garth House, 60m south west of Snaygill Farm
- Split and hewn cup-marked rock north of a wall junction on Rivock
- Cup and ring marked rock 370m SSW of Panorama Reservoir
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement known as Round Dykes Camp on Addingham Low Moor
- Two prominent cup marked rock outcrops known as Doubler Stones
- Cup marked rock 39m south east of entrance to Silver Well Cottage
- Cup marked rock adjacent to wall near road from East Morton to West Morton
- Cairn 330m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement with an outlying bank and ditch on Counter Hill, 220m north east of Moorcock Hall
- Black Hill round cairn
- Anglo-Saxon cemetery and medieval manorial centre including fishponds and part of the open field system adjacent to St Peter's Church
- Cup and ring marked rock 42m east of Rivock Edge triangulation pillar
- Low rock with one cup on unforested plateau at Rivock
- Rock with at least 15 cups 240m south of Great Wood Laithe, Horse Close Hill
- Rock with single cup mark in forestry SSE of Black Pots
- Recumbent gatepost with cup and ring carving 57m west of the Swastika Stone
- Rock with at least six cups 170m north west of Grey Stones Farm
- Group of four carved rocks in Panorama Woods
- Long barrow and superimposed round cairn on Black Hill
- Carved rock known as the Barmishaw Stone
- Two carved rocks in field 130m north east of Cawder Hall Farm, Horse Close Hill
- Rock with one cup in field south east of Great Wood Plantation, 450m north east of Cawder Hall Farm, Horse Close Hill
- Large cup and ring marked rock in forestry furrows on Rivock
- Carved rock near wall in pasture below Addingham Crag 290m south of Cragg House
- Ring cairn 310m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement 500m north west of Goose Clough on Ovenden Moor
- Ore hearth smeltmill and wood drying kiln in Lumb Clough Wood, 350m south east of Bank Foot
- Cup marked rock in forestry furrow on Rivock
- Rock with many cup marks on ridge between Dryas Dike and Delves Beck 880m ESE of Blackhill House, Middleton Moor
- Cup and ring marked rock below Brunthwaite Crag
- Group of five carved rocks on the western ridge of Stanbury Hill
- Cup and ring marked rock next to wall NNW of Black Pots
- Cup and ring marked rock known as Piper Crag Stone
- Cup and ring marked rock 350m SSW of Panorama Reservoir
- Carved rock south east of entrance to Silver Well Cottage
- Cup and ring marked rock 150m west of Low Edge Farm, Bradley Moor
- Cup marked rock between Doubler Stones and Gawk Stones
- Small cup-marked rock on Stanbury Hill, 40m west of fork in path
- Carved rock next to the drive of Overdale Nursing Home
- Cup, ring and groove marked rock south of derelict wall on Bradley Moor, 70m south west of Low Edge Farm
- Rock with many cup marks and one groove between Dryas Dike and Delves Beck 910m ESE of Blackhill House, Middleton Moor
- Cup and ring marked rock 12.5m from drainage cut NNE of Black Pots
- Cup marked rock 14m from the wall on the unforested plateau at Rivock
- Cup marked rock near wall below Rivock Edge
- Flat carved rock 150m south west of Silver Well Cottage
- Cup and groove-marked rock north of Drake Hill
- Carved rock on bank of How Beck, east of path from West Morton to Riddlesden and 440m south west of Barn House Farm
- Cup marked rock on north side of barn, 100m north west of the Grey Stones Farm
- Late prehistoric enclosed settlement 350m south west of Goose Clough at Hunter Hill, Ovenden
- Rock with one cup in east end of Great Wood Plantation, 375m NNE of Cawder Hall Farm, Horse Close Hill
- Cup marked rock 19m above forestry track in Rivock conifer plantation
- Cup marked rock 1m from wall on unforested plateau at Rivock
- Carved rock east of track north of Drake Hill
- Rock with single cup near track north of Drake Hill
- Cup marked rock in enclosed pasture NNE of Black Pots
- Round Hill, round barrow 1/2 mile (800m) NNE of Upper Austby Farm
- Carved rock 110m north east of Badger Stone
- Subcircular enclosed settlement on Horse Close Hill 250m north of Horse Close Farm
- Wayside cross known as Abel Cross
- Large carved rock in the wall between grouse moor and forestry plantation on Rivock
- Churchyard cross at the Church of St Peter
- Rock with at least eight cups and two long grooves on ridge between Dryas Dike and Delves Beck 870m ESE of Blackhill House, Middleton Moor
- Cup and ring marked rock on moor east of Gawk Stones
- Cup marked rock 47m south east of Rivock Edge triangulation pillar
- Two cup marked rocks between Dryas Dike and Delves Beck 810m ESE of Blackhill House, Middleton Moor