Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Keighley. You may be able to find further references to Keighley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
KEIGHLEY	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Keighley.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bogthorn	hamlet	Bartholomew
BOGTHORN	a hamlet	Imperial
Braithwaite	hamlet	Bartholomew
BRAITHWAITE	a hamlet	Imperial
Dockroyd	hamlet	Bartholomew
DOCKROYD	a hamlet	Imperial
Eastwood	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
EASTWOOD	a chapelry	Imperial
EXLEY-HEAD	a hamlet	Imperial
Far Oxenhope	hamlet	Bartholomew
Fell Lane	hamlet	Bartholomew
FELL-LANE	a hamlet	Imperial
Harehill	hamlet	Bartholomew
HAREHILL	a hamlet	Imperial
Ingrow	village with railway station	Bartholomew
INGROW	a village	Imperial
KNOWLE	a hamlet	Imperial
LAYCOCK	a hamlet	Imperial
NEWSHOLME	a hamlet	Imperial
OAKWORTH	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
SLIPPERY-FORD	a hamlet	Imperial
SYKES	a hamlet	Imperial
UTLEY	a hamlet	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Keighley within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	2
William Camden	Yorkshire: West Riding	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Cross Roads	0	2
Ingrow	0	3
Haworth	6	2
Oakworth	0	2
Lawkholme	0	1
Eastwood	0	2
Cullingworth	0	2
Steeton	0	2
Harden	0	2
Oxenhope	0	2
Wilsden	0	2
Riddlesden	0	2
Sutton	0	3
Eastburn	0	2
Stanbury	0	2
Bingley	0	3
Cross Hills	0	2
Denholme	0	3
Kildwick	0	2
Morton	0	2