Part of Rombalds Moor, Baildon Moor lies to the north of Baildon, and to the north of the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Baildon Moor has a rich cultural history spanning the last 4000 years; a number of cup-and-ring marked stones are sited on the Moor, as well as the remains of military training and defences relating to WWII. However, it is the Moor's rich geology - stone, coal and clay - that has played a part in shaping the surrounding settlement. The earliest evidence for this resource exploitation appears in the fourteenth century, when a Lord of one of the Baildon manors complained that coal valued at 100 shillings had been dug from his land.
Features on Baildon Moor will be mapped during a programme of fieldwalking. Further evidence will be drawn together from documentary, photographic and oral history sources.
