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Ilkley Manor House, the Glossary

Ilkley Manor House, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England, is a local heritage museum, art gallery, and live venue, and was established in the present building in 1961 to preserve local archaeological artefacts after the spa town expanded and much Roman material was lost.^[1]

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Art museums and galleries in West Yorkshire
Country houses in West Yorkshire
History of West Yorkshire
Ilkley
Local museums in West Yorkshire
Museums established in 1892
Museums in the City of Bradford

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Fred Titchmarsh HonFSE (born 2 May 1949) is an English gardener and broadcaster.

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Albatross

Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).

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All Saints' Parish Church, Ilkley

The Parish Church of All Saints in Ilkley in West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Bradford and the Diocese of Leeds. Ilkley Manor House and All Saints' Parish Church, Ilkley are Ilkley.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Antiquarian

An antiquarian or antiquary is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Art gallery

An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed.

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Ben Rhydding railway station

Ben Rhydding railway station serves the Ben Rhydding area of Ilkley, West Yorkshire; it is situated about a mile east of the town centre. Ilkley Manor House and Ben Rhydding railway station are Ilkley.

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Boomerang

A boomerang is a thrown tool typically constructed with airfoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Buttery (room)

A buttery was originally a large cellar room under a monastery, in which food and drink were stored for the provisioning of strangers and passing guests.

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Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle (Castell Caernarfon) is a medieval fortress in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.

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Castellum

A castellum in Latin is usually.

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Castra

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (castra) was a military-related term.

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City of Bradford

Bradford, also known as the City of Bradford, is a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.

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City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council is the local authority of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England.

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Cup and ring mark

Cup and ring marks or cup marks are a form of prehistoric art found in the Atlantic seaboard of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Northern England, Scotland, France (Brittany), Portugal, and Spain (Galicia) – and in Mediterranean Europe – Italy (in Alpine valleys and Sardinia), Azerbaijan and Greece (Thessaly and Irakleia (Cyclades)), as well as in Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) and in Switzerland (at Caschenna in Grisons).

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Disturbance (archaeology)

A disturbance is any change to an archaeological site due to events which occurred after the site was laid down.

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Early modern Britain

Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Framing (construction)

Framing, in construction, is the fitting together of pieces to give a structure support and shape.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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Garderobe

Garderobe is a historic term for a room in a medieval castle.

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Gazette & Observer

The Gazette & Observer, in full the Ilkley, Wharfedale and Aireborough Gazette & Observer, was a weekly newspaper published by Wharfedale Newspapers of Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England, and part of the Newsquest group. Ilkley Manor House and Gazette & Observer are Ilkley.

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Geology

Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Grade I listed buildings in West Yorkshire

There are over 9,000 Grade I listed buildings in England.

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Great hall

A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages, and continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great chamber for eating and relaxing.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Gritstone

Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone.

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Heritage centre

A heritage centre, center, or museum, is a public facility – typically a museum, monument, visitor centre, or park – that is primarily dedicated to the presentation of historical and cultural information about a place and its people, and often also including, to some degree, the area's natural history.

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Historic house museum

A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that is preserved as a museum.

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Ilkley

Ilkley is a spa town and civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, in Northern England.

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Ilkley railway station

Ilkley railway station serves Ilkley in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Ilkley Manor House and Ilkley railway station are Ilkley.

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Ilkley Roman Fort

Ilkley Roman Fort is a Roman fort on the south bank of the River Wharfe, at the centre of the modern town of Ilkley, a Victorian spa town in West Yorkshire, England. Ilkley Manor House and Ilkley Roman Fort are Ilkley.

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Interpretation centre

An interpretation centre, interpretive centre, or visitor interpretive centre is an institution for dissemination of knowledge of natural or cultural heritage.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Japanese armour

Scholars agree that Japanese armour first appeared in the 4th century, with the discovery of the cuirass and basic helmets in graves.

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John Wesley

John Wesley (2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism.

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King post

A king post (or king-post or kingpost) is a central vertical post used in architectural or bridge designs, working in tension to support a beam below from a truss apex above (whereas a crown post, though visually similar, supports items above from the beam below).

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Listed buildings in Ilkley

Ilkley is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Ilkley Manor House and Listed buildings in Ilkley are Ilkley.

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Manor house

A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Works was a department of the UK Government formed in 1940, during the Second World War, to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use.

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Mullion

A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively.

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Multiview orthographic projection

In technical drawing and computer graphics, a multiview projection is a technique of illustration by which a standardized series of orthographic two-dimensional pictures are constructed to represent the form of a three-dimensional object.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Peel tower

Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, mainly between the mid-14th century and about 1600.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Rafter

A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members such as steel beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof shingles, roof deck, roof covering and its associated loads.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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River Wharfe

The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England originating within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Romano-British culture

The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sawfish

Sawfish, also known as carpenter sharks, are a family of rays characterized by a long, narrow, flattened rostrum, or nose extension, lined with sharp transverse teeth, arranged in a way that resembles a saw.

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Serpent (instrument)

The serpent is a low-pitched early wind instrument in the brass family developed in the Renaissance era.

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Solar (room)

The solar was a room in many English and French medieval manor houses, great houses and castles, mostly on an upper storey, designed as the family's private living and sleeping quarters.

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Spa town

A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring).

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Stone carving

Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone.

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Terra sigillata

Terra sigillata is a term with at least three distinct meanings: as a description of medieval medicinal earth; in archaeology, as a general term for some of the fine red Ancient Roman pottery with glossy surface slips made in specific areas of the Roman Empire; and more recently, as a description of a contemporary studio pottery technique supposedly inspired by ancient pottery.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkley_Manor_House

Also known as Manor House Museum.

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See also

Art museums and galleries in West Yorkshire

Country houses in West Yorkshire

History of West Yorkshire

Ilkley

Local museums in West Yorkshire

Museums established in 1892

Museums in the City of Bradford

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