Website Designers in Otley
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- Domain names
- Web hosting
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- Traffic monitoring & statistics
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- Email newsletters
- Database driven sites
- Usability & accessibility advice
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Notable facts about Otley
- Otley town dates from before Roman times and belonged to the Archbishopric of York. Remains of the old Archbishop's Manor House were found during the construction of St Joseph's RC Primary School near the River Wharfe.
- Documented history for Otley's market begins in 1222 when King Henry III granted the first Royal Charter.
- J.M.W. Turner, the famed painter, visited Otley in 1797 when commissioned to paint watercolours of the area. He was so attracted to Otley and the surrounding area that he returned time and time again.
- Famous Methodist preacher John Wesley was a frequent visitor to Otley in the 18th century. Allegedly his horse died in the town and is buried in the grounds of the parish church. Its grave is marked by an unusual toblerone-shaped stone, also known locally as the "Donkey Stone".
- Five active Morris dance groups are based in Otley along with number of active drama groups, a poetry society and a a thriving Brass Band.
- Otley once vied with a select handful of towns in England for the distinction of having the most pubs per head of population. The Black Bull - one of Otley's 22 pubs - was allegedly drunk dry by Cromwell's troops on the night before the battle of Marston Moor during the English Civil War.
c1912. Man with a pig on Bondgate, Otley