What’s On

photoILKLEY

3rd Jul 2026 - 9th Aug 2026
11:00 am - 4:00 pm

photoILKLEY is a grassroots photography festival that celebrates photography’s unique power to connect, to question, and to see the world anew. As part of the festival, Ilkley Manor House...

Vivid Impressions Exhibition

4th Jul 2026 - 6th Sep 2026
11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join the summer fun at the Solar Gallery… a bold and bright exhibition by the solar Gallery Artists ‘Vivid Impressions’ is a vibrant and colourful selection of work by...

Summer Makers’ Fair

25th Jul 2026 - 26th Jul 2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Calling all art lovers and craft enthusiasts! Ilkley Manor House courtyard will once again be filled with makers’ stalls selling a wide range of beautiful handmade items. Step into...

COFFEE MORNING – Yorkshire Dialect by Rod Dimbleby

31st Jul 2026
10:15 am - 11:30 am

Author and storyteller who specialises in Yorkshire Dialect stories, will entertain with amusing Yorkshire tales and poems, and will talk about the Yorkshire dialect and the Yorkshire Dialect Society....

Yorkshire Day 2026

1st Aug 2026
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join us as we celebrate Yorkshire Day at Ilkley Manor House with traditional maypole dancing, Victorian games and a white rose craft activity inspired by Yorkshire’s heritage. Visitors can also...

FAMILY FUN – Follow the Eagle

8th Aug 2026
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Dress as a Roman, make a shield, march behind an eagle around Olicana fort. Can’t make these special family fun sessions? Don’t worry! Ilkley Manor House is open on...

Victorian Life at the Old Castle Exhibition

18th Aug 2026 - 6th Sep 2026
11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Discover more about the Victorian cottages of the Old Castle and the people who lived there. This exhibition curated by our Community Curators Group offers a glimpse into life...

So Let It Be: Collected Poems by Colin Speakman

28th Aug 2026
6:00 pm

Ilkley Manor House is proud to host the launch of So Let It Be: Collected Poems by Colin Speakman, a celebrated Yorkshire writer, campaigner and author whose work has...

Bard in the Yard 2026

30th Aug 2026 - 31st Aug 2026
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

August 2026 marks the seventh year of Bard in the Yard, when Ilkley Playhouse brings miniature Shakespeare to the Manor House Yard. Last year’s productions were Antony and Cleopatra...