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