Keighley

Keighley (pronounced Kecthley), a market and manufacturing town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the Aire, amid the moorland scenery of the Brontës' country, 9 miles NW. of Bradford and 17 WNW. of Leeds. It has a parish church (rebuilt 1848), a Gothic mechanics' institute (1870-87), the Drake trade school (1713; rebuilt 1860), extensive water-works (1876), and two public parks of 9 and 15 acres gifted in 1887-88 by the Duke of Devonshire and Mr J. Lund. The manufactures of worsted and woollen goods, worsted-spinning machinery, and sewing and washing machines are important. Keighley was constituted a municipal borough in 1882. Pop. (1851) 13,050; (1881) 25,245; (1891) 30,810. See R. Holmes, Keighley, Past and Present (1858).