It
would appear apostles are as confused today as they were thousands of
years ago. I noted this in a book about that song and Ilkley’s
Moor. A Gazette article earlier this year highlighted an enigma
which has long puzzled me. For the past twenty or so years I and
friends have combed near every square inch of Ilkley Moor in search
of Ilkley’s illusive Apostle Stones. Media and historians are
forever quoting their existence but finding them is quite another
matter. Burley folk can count themselves lucky as their Apostle
Stones are easy to find. In fact they are on the Ordnance Survey map
but not Ilkley’s. Would those who know where Ilkley’s Apostle
Stones are please enlighten the rest of us so we can enjoy them as
much as Burley enjoys theirs. We hope 2013 will, at last, lead to
the discovery of Ilkley’s long lost Apostle Stones. They must be
up there somewhere.
