Name | Cullingworth |
Alt names | Cullingworth | source: from redirect | | Colingauuorde | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 315 |
Type | Chapelry, Civil parish |
Coordinates | 53.818°N 1.914°W |
Located in | West Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
Also located in | West Yorkshire, England (1974 - ) | | Yorkshire, England |
See also | Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | ancient parish in which it was a chapelry, then urban district in which Cullingworth was located until 1974, | | Bradford (metropolitan borough), West Yorkshire, England | metropolitan borough of which it has been a part since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Cullingworth is now a civil parish and a village in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Prior to 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is west of Bradford and south of Keighley. The surrounding countryside is mainly used for sheep and cattle farming, with areas of moorland lying to the north and west.
The village has undergone expansion in recent years, including a new primary school and housing estates. Cullingworth is now a popular commuter settlement serving the nearby towns of Keighley, Bradford and Halifax. The village had a population of 2,932 at the 2011 Census.
Cullingworth was situated in Bingley Urban District until being absorbed by Bradford Metropolitan Borough in 1974.
The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portmouth Department of Geography).
- "CULLINGWORTH, a hamlet in Bingley parish, and a chapelry in Bingley and Bradford parishes, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The hamlet lies near the river Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and the North Midland railway, 3 miles SW of Bingley; and has a post office under Leeds. The chapelry was constituted in 1846. Population: 1, 943. Houses: 385. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value: £130. Patron: alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good."
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