Place:Knottingley, Yorkshire, England

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NameKnottingley
Alt namesEast Knottingleysource: Family History Library Catalog
Notingelaisource: Domesday Book (1985) p 317
Notingeleiasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 317
TypeTown
Coordinates53.7°N 1.25°W
Located inYorkshire, England
Also located inWest Yorkshire, England    
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source: Family History Library Catalog


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Knottingley is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England on the River Aire and the A1 road. It has a population of 13,503.

Until 1699, it was an important inland river port but, in that year, the Aire was made navigable as far as Leeds, which soon surpassed it. Knottingley continued as a centre for boat building into the twentieth century. After 1870, the town also became known for glass manufacturing.

The town is served by Knottingley railway station.

Knottingley is famous as a glass manufacturing town. In 1887 Bagley's Glassworks purchased the rights to the first bottle-making machine, invented by a Ferrybridge postmaster.

Close to Knottingley is the Ferrybridge Power Station, which has the largest cooling towers of their kind in Europe. Three of these towers collapsed in high winds in 1965. These towers can be seen for miles around. One of the oldest purpose-built cinemas in England, located in Aire Street, has been converted into flats.

The town is one of the few in the United Kingdom to have a working coal mine, Kellingley Colliery.

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