Grove House.
A two storey house in the mill yard. The home of Illingworth and then John Clough. It is believed that John was planning to build a grand new house away from the mill for himself and his family called Woodworth, there are plans at Keighley library and they are dated before his death. Nancy, John's wife continued to live here after his death. 

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Guard House, West Lane

Seems to have taken its name  from some buildings having been appropriated to the purpose of guarding the town. most certainly taken its name prior to the first Scotch rebellion, and it may be considered a suitable situation for a soldier's guard-room, standing on elevated ground a little way above the town. We believe that it was built around 1760, double fronted with sash windows and mullions. House and attached barn, described with farm buildings, gardens, pleasure gardens and 22 acres of land.

The Brigg family lived here for many years, Mrs. Isabella Brigg lived here in 1834. The 1851 and later census give the impression that there might have been two dwellings here. John with his family and servant are shown, then as a separate household also stating Guard House is William Brigg head of house with one servant. In the 1861 census there is no evidence of it being two dwellings, but there is mentioned "Old House" which is not mentioned in the 1851 census, seems highly possible that this old house is the one that William was living in. In the 1871 we have Old Guard House and Old House mentioned. Some time around 1938 the family offered the house to Victoria Hospital but it was declined for some reason and instead sold to the  Roman Catholic church when it became the presbytery.
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Haincliffe House. stood at the top of the field opposite the recreation ground on Spring Bank, but now demolished around 1930. The architect was John Haggas of North Street. From plans in the library we can see it was a large house but not a grand one. Large kitchen with adjoining dining room and a saloon and hot room behind a drawing room, and a scullery. Four large bedrooms, one of which had a dressing room and a closet, bathroom and WC and servants bedroom with their own stairs. 
 Click link for photo of John Clough and Thamar. Sir John Clough,  Born 1836.  Knighted in 1914.  Died 03 May 1922 at `Haincliffe'. His wife, Thamar, and daughter of Prince Smith also born in 1836. died at `Haincliffe' on 09 March 1909, and so never lived to share his finest hour in the presence King George V. John and Thamar moved here from Bracken Bank House.
A relic from Haincliffe House 
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Hainworth Wood House now called Haincliffe House
It was divided from Red Holt around 1975 / 6 and was originally built  around 1900. is the original house built for the son of Sir John Clough At some time an extra wing was added, the wing was later turned into a residential home for the elderly, Red Holt.
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Harden Grange, Harden See St Ives

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Hawcliff House, Steeton
In the 1881 census we find an unmarried Sarah M. Barlow has head of the house, with a cook and a housemaid.

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Hawkcliff Cottage, Steeton.

Situated on the same side of the road as Hawcliffe House, set a little way back from the toll road with a track separating it from the wood. The house now called Hawcliffe Cottage is on the other side of the toll road, it is believed that this was built as a toll house. In the 1841 census we find Thomas Padgett a farmer and his family. In the Poll for a Knight listings of 1849 we find Thomas Shires.  1881 census we have Thomas S Shackleton Gardener, Domestic Servant and his family. From the newspaper cutting below we find that two other families also lived here at some point, Linyard and William Parnell. Knowing that there has been more than one Hawkcliffe cottage we can not with certainty say that Thomas Pagett and Thomas Shires were at the one pictured here, but for now we shall include them until we have ascertained exactly which cottage they lived in. Butterfield is believed to have bought the wood in 1875, we have no idea when or if indeed he bought the cottage. Sarah Barlow (above at Hawcliffe House) was the step daughter of Craven, it would be within reason to assume that they owned not only the house but the cottage and used the cottage for staff and that both properties were built around the same time. I think it would be pretty safe to say that if Butterfield bought the land he demolished the house, (he seemed to be the Victorian equivalent to a certain builder of today who must remain un named). he moved the archway to the road edge, being ornamental it would add a little "Butterfield flash" to what would other wise be a boring wall.

The mystery of the gate solved
There as been much speculation regarding the grand gate at the corner of Hawkcliffe on Skipton Road and where it came from, some have even suggested that it came from an Abbey. From using maps that show where the entrance to the cottage was we are sure that it is almost in the correct position, although when we visited the wall in order to investigate, we noticed that a few yards farther down the road heading toward Keighley that there was another possible entrance that might well have been the way into the wood, after much pacing and measuring our stride we believe that the gate is where the entrance to the cottage would have been, and that the other opening with one remaining pillar still standing was the entrance to the wood. It would seem only right and fitting that the gate should stand here as a reminder.
We are greatly indebted to Mr. Coe of Shann Crescent for not only allowing us to see the photo but for giving permission for it to be used here

The gate in Skipton Road		Hawkcliffe Cottage		To read the newspaper cutting please click on image to see larger view

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Hawkcliffe (Cottage) Toll House also known as the Old Bar-house

Built 1823 operational till 1877
1841 census shows John Murgatroyd at the Bar house and he is a Fowl Keeper. 
1852 . Deaths By Lighting.— Yorkshire.—The town of Keighley experienced a severe storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by torrents of rain. In a cottage, called the Old Barhouse, at Hawkcliffe Wood, near Keighley, was a man named Blakeborough (or possibly Blackborough) with his wife and four children, together with other children, not his own. These little ones were all playing at one side of the house, when the lightning struck an ash tree which overhangs the cottage, then pierced through the wall, struck down three of the children, and passed through a window on the opposite side of the room. One of the children was mortally injured. The child least hurt hail an exact representation of the ash tree which the lightning had struck upon its back with the branches and leaves complete, as if it had been burnt on with an iron stamp.
Taken from Kings Highway in Craven Steeton Bar. - This was set up in 1753 at "Steeton Cross," that is, at the foot of the steep hill by which the road then descended into Steeton. In 1782 when the new road under Hawkcliffe was made, the bar was removed to where the cottage now known as the "Old Bar-house" stands. The house at Steeton was ordered to be pulled down in 1788. In 1823, in view of the opening of the new road from Keighley, the New Bar-house" at Hawkcliffe was built, intercepting the traffic by "Old Bar-house Lane" as well as that by the new road. 
1861 The house has had its tragedy. Mr. John Clough in his "History of Steeton" (p. 48) tells us: "In 1861 the man who lived at the toll-bar, named Holdsworth, shot his wife from the bedroom window. His wife and her brother were walking together on the footpath, about thirty yards on the Steeton side of the house, when the shot was fired which killed his wife. It was not certainly known whether he was aiming at her or her brother. He was found hiding on the moors; when he was tried he was brought in insane and imprisoned for life."
1878 The initials and date (1878) were put up by the purchaser, the late Sir John Horsfall, when the trust was abolished and the houses sold. 
1881 census George Marshall a gardener is living at the Old Bar House. Also Joseph Midgley a farmer of 50 acres, they are both listed as head of house so we must assume the house as been made into two dwellings. 

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Hawkstones, Shann Lane, Utley
Built by William Marriner Brigg on land given to his wife who was also his cousin, Sarah Marriner by her father Benjamin Flesher Marriner. 1871 Home of Brigg family, 1881 William Marriner Brigg  and family lived here until 1898 Household in 1881 1901 Joseph Summerscales retired foundry engineer. 


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Hayfield, Glusburn

Built for James Hartley, later taken over in the  1870's by Hartley's partner John C Horsfall and extended. In 1922 Sir John Donald Bart lived here.

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Herncliffe
John J Waterworth Solicitor Click here to see 1881 household. Samuel Stell was living here in 1927. Very much extended and now a nursing home.
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Highfield House.
Mary Quinn Teacher Trained Certifo (Sch) lived here in 1881 Click here to see 1881 household. Dr William Scatterty lived here. Death Notice: Scatterty.-On December 6, 1954, at Highfield House, Keighley, Yorks, William Scatterty, M.D., D.P.H., aged 95.

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Hillbrook, Mayfield Road, Spring Gardens
In 1881 and 1891 Prince (Jnr) Smith lived here, his father living next door at Holly House. Click here to see household.
Google Street view 
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High Mead

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(Holly Croft) Holycroft House, Oakworth Road.

We found an advertisement for the auction of Holy Croft In 1844 by James Graines, we discover that the tenant is Richard Sugden, there is a dwelling house, barn, stables, cowhouse, and other out buildings and a yard and garden joining. Land: Gutter Croft, Low Long Field, and Low Holy Field. Lot 2 contained The Wood, The Brows. Lot 3 High Holy Croft and High Long Field. Lot 4 the tenant is Edward Lord, Low Castle Field with a road five yards wide through Low Stainforth Flats to Fell Lane. Thomas Corlass in 1851 We know from the census that James Lund who would later move to Malsis Hall, Sutton liived here before his move in 1881.  Rudolph Strecker lived here at some point.  Now flats.

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Taken from Textile manufacture, and other industries in Keighley John Hodgson 1879 "There stood an old farm house at Holy Croft, occupied by a farmer and fish dealer, named Thomas Harrison, who will be remembered by elderly people by the name of 'Cockle Tom;"

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Holly House, Spring Gardens Lane.
Prince  Smith (Sen) lived here in 1881 Click here to see 1881 household. 1901 we find elderly sisters Ann and Amelia Clough living here

The road you can see going off to the right is the top of what was Dark Lane before Mr. Butterfied of Cliff Castle closed it off.
Google street view

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Ingrow House.

1820

From a monument inscription at Keighley Parish Church we discover that Joseph Emmet paper maker and his wife lived here in 1820. In the 1871 census we find it described Ingrow House also known as River Worth House, Paper Mill Yard. Home of the Haggas family. Now demolished

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Jubilee Tower, Hollings Bank Lane
Built 1897 by Henry Isaac Butterfield to mark the 50th anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria. The tower was intended as a dwelling and was home to Butterfield's gamekeeper for a while. It was sold by the family in the 1940's. 

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Kildwick Hall

Sir John Brigg lived here 1895 -1911, he was the son of John Brigg of Calversyke Hill. William Anderton Brigg (Keighley Mayor) & his brother Dr J.J. Brigg lived here from 1911 until the first world war. Currer fromoldbooks.org

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Knoll, (Knowle) House, Halifax Road, Keighley.

			Before the wealth of the manufactures arrived, this was the only superior mansion in Keighley. The house was built by John Greenwood, then bought by William Lund Worsted, manufacturer. In 1881 William Midgley is shown living at Knowle and William Clough at Knowle Park.  At some point William Clough lived here. Percy Clough lived here in 1913. The house still stands. After Percy Clough's death there on 29 February 1956, the House became the Co-op Funeral Business on 28 August 1957.
keighley.plus.com	Photo Jan Perkins

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Knowle Spring House, Keighley.

Now called Green Gables. It's been a country club, and a public house.
Robert  Aked,  Esq. Who was listed in Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory of 1822 (printer and circulating library) 109, Low street. He also started a news paper called The Advertiser. In 1853 he is listed as being a bookseller and having a stamp office,  at Low Street. Alice is registered also at 104 Low Street as a straw hat maker.  Robert's daughter Charlotte married Timothy Taylor the brewer. John Aked Taylor, born 1917, the grandson of Timothy Taylor and great grandson of Elizabeth Petyt.  Click here to see household in 1881
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Laurel Mount, Woodville Road
1891 Ira Ickringill

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Laverock Hall Oakworth
We know from the book Keighley, Past and Present Pighills lived here before 1047. Henry and Mary Pighills, rebuilt Laverock Hall, in 1640. Henry, who died, 1647, was succeeded at Laverock Hall by his third son, Nathan Pighills, who dying unmarried at an advanced age, left Laverock Hall, Carr Head, and the bulk of his property to John Bradley, the son of his niece. Mr. N. Pighills had a sister Mary, who married Mr. Edmund Laycock of Cowling, whose only surviving daughter married Mr. Thomas Bradley of Cononley. Their son, John Bradley, bom 1682, becoming the especial favourite and eventually heir of his great-uncle as above stated, married the daughter of Mr. John Green of Southwark, Merchant, and had a son John, who died without issue. He had likewise a daughter  Elizabeth, who in 1740 married Mr. Richard Wainman, ancestor of William B. Wainman, Esq., the present owner of Laverock Hall and the more eligible modern mansion and estate of Carr Head.
Betty Turner was born here in 1791. John Whitaker Binns died here 1870.
 moon-rakers.co.uk Home of: Midgley's - Willis Hall 'Billy Liar' playwright lived at Laverock Hall  Photo  thisisbradford.co.uk  

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Lawkholme House
In 1861 we find Henry Rishworth, corn miller and his family here with house servant. The next property on the census is Eastwood House, then immediately after another Lawkholme house with Paul Thornber Heardsman residing there, this later house seems to be a smaller house.
Henry Rishworth was in partnership with Isreal Clapham and they are mentioned in the newspaper item ADULTERATION OF FLOUR AT KEIGHLEY. The Bradford Observer (Bradford, England), Thursday, March 22, 1855; pg. 6. Henry's sister was married to William Roper, a descendent of the Ropers of Damems. 
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Layland House, Keighley
The home of John Blakey corn miler at Low Bridge in 1867. John was father to Thomas who was also a corn miller, Thomas is mentioned in the The Bradford Observer, Thursday, March 22, 1855; pg. 6 ADULTERATION OF FLOUR AT KEIGHLEY

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Liverpool House, Keighley
John Smith Grocer, who we know lived on the corner of Changegate and Low Street in 1871 is recorded at his death in 1888 of being of Liverpool House, we have also seen mention of it in the publication, The Chemical news and journal of physical science. We understand that there was a practice mid to late 19th century to name trading premises after some of the great trading centers such as Leeds London Liverpool etc.

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Longlands, Cross Roads.

Built in 1884 for Edwin Robinson Merrall. The Merrall's left Longlands at the start of the First World War.  Mr Inglis bought the property around 1920, he turned the billiard room into a ballroom.. It was sold to Mr Paley just before the Second World War, he had intended to turn it into a hotel. It was later sold to the Heald Brothers, who used it as an hostel for immigrant mill girls. Sold in the 1960's to developers, who built on the land, and the house fell into disrepair. The house was then sold for use as an old peoples home. Bought in 1975 for use by YHA. Photo of the lodge haworth-village.org.uk

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Lowfield House, 41 North Street.

Built by George Smith in 1852, the property had 15 acres, George was the father of Swire Smith and brother to Prince Smith, George moved here from his small house in Wagon Fold. Substantial if plain, and it stood nearly opposite the new Institute, in the centre of the town.

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Low Mill House 
We do not know when it was demolished, possibly around 1950,  1851  the census shows us that John Craven was living here, it stood somewhere around where Iceland and Aldi are now. We can see it was once a very substantial place with extensive gardens, sadly very little documentation remains. In 1920 Joseph Ashton and Tom Aston Stansfield, are listed as living there

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Malsis Hall
James Lund  of Malsis Hall, Crosshills millenniumschools.co.uk James Lund donated Lund Park to Keighley.
John Horsfall was born here in the early 1600's William Spencer was born here in 1794, his daughter married James Lund, when James took over the property had fallen into disrepair.

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Manor House, Braithwaite Village

Built in 1600's by Thomas Hird, used as a Quaker meeting house in the 18th century.

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Manor House, Laycock

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Manor House, Green Head Lane
Unlikely to have ever been a manor house, and is just named as such. William Sugden Clapham was living there in 1881

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Mansion House, High Street, Keighley
In the parish register for 1787 we found an entry for William son of William Longsdale, Old Mansion House, Keighley. So we must wonder if in 1787 the word old is being used if it means that there was another before the one on High Street.
Robert Barlow of Blackpool was living here at the time of his death 28 Sep 1832. Robert Barlow's daughter Jane married Richard Shackleton Butterfield of Woodlands Haworth.
The Bradford Observer (Bradford, England), Thursday, September 30, 1875; pg. 6
The Mansion House was sold at auction by Miss S Barlow September 1875 and bought by the Local Board for highway improvements for £750, the remainder of the Mansion property in West Lane and High Street was also bought by them for £1220. It is still possible to identify the property today from the other side of the road.

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Manor House, Keighley
Taken from Keighley Past and Present The Park was probably paled or fenced round on the reception of this charter, its situation and extent being still ascertainable eastward of the town, in the fields called "The Parks", "Broad Parks", "Park Wood", and "Park Lane". The names of the "Park" and the "Paddock" being, so far as we know, the only existing mementoes of the one dominant influential family having once resided in the town, even the site of the house appears to have been long since forgotten. But in a note appended to a pedigree of the Keighley's, transcribed from the Harleian manuscripts, and communicated to the Archaeological Institute, by J.A. Busfeild, Esq., there is the following very curious notice of the ancient residence of the lords of this manor: "I then inquired for the Manor House of the Keighley, belonging to this family and was shown a poor cottage, where a simple schoolmaster lived, where they informed me, stood formally the hall and the great large buildings, but now converted into meadows, orchards, and gardens." The writer of this I believe, is not known, but the date, 1667 renders it exceedingly interesting.
Looking through some old copies of the Keighley News of 1932 I came upon a small article which said pretty much all the above, but an entry caught my eye in that locals had known this place, Killington Castle which stood in a commanding position on the edge of a plateau at the top of Parkwood, a  quaint old cottage which had formally been thatched. The Will of Thomas Keighley Rector of Kyngston in Summerset leaves to Robert a dwelling at Keighley Hall, 40 s 1395-1396

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Manor House, Utley

The first record we can find the property is owned by the Smiths and it came into the hands of the Clapham's via marriage, the Clapham's later acquired Exley Hall, Wet (Wheat) Head and Thwaites. It is believed that the Keighley family were the original owners.
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Marley Hall

Home to the Marley's, Maude's, Currer's and Saviles. Rebuilt by John Savile in 1627. Robert Savile sold it to Samual Sunderland, who on his death bequeathed it to Robert Parker. Mrs. Ferrand bought it in 1842. the Walkers', lived here in the 1960's pcug.org.au see picture Page 94. members.tripod.com In White's Directory of 1837 John Blagbrough is listed as farmer here, one assumes that they meant Marley Hall Farm. I believe that this 1881 census listing is for Marley Hall, and was miss spelt

Extract from Ancient Bingley by Joseph Horsfall Turner
Wm. Currer occupied Marley Hall, and afterwards his son William Currer. In 1G23, John Rishworth, Esq., of Riddlesden, succeeded Paslew, and sold Marley Hall and lands for £700 to John Savile, Esq., of Halifax, whose arms yet remain over the porch and also in the hall window. In 1651, Robert Savile, of Marley Hall, mortgaged the estate to Samuel Sunderland, Esq., of Harden, for £100, and in 1665 Mr. Sunderland purchased the fee for £944 9s. Od. In 1675, he settled the estate upon his nephew Robert Parker, Esq., who then resided at Marley Hall, and in the Parker family it remained until 1843, when the manor of Harden and Marley Hall, with nearly 400 acres of land and wood were purchased for £17300, by Mrs. Sarah Ferrand and her son Wm. Busfeild, Esq., M.P., from Thomas Goulborne Parker, Esq., of Browsholme. On the Dissolution of the Priory of Drax, the King, Hy. VIII. , seized the property and manor of Harden, and granted the same to Walter Paslew.

Extracts from Keighley Past & Present:
Marley, though not a Doomsday manor, is mentioned in the survey as a place within the soke of Bingley, containing one carucate of land, but returned as waste. This village at an early period seems to have given name to a family; for in the ninth of Edward II., a “Peter de Marthley and Ralph de Ilketon” were lords of the adjoining manor of Morton. This place was for some time the residence of the Currers, and, as stated in the pedigree, “William Currer of Marley, who married Isabel, daughter of Christopher Maud, Esq., of Rolling Hail, was the son of the first Hugh Currer of Kildwick, and elder brother of Henry of Kildwick, who died 19th Aug., 1568.” In the “History of Craven,”— “The manor of Bingley was sold to the Walkers, and by them to Hugh Currer of Marley, whose grandson, Henry Currer, Esq., of Gawthorpe, in the year 1668, sold it to Robert Benson, father of the first Lord Bingley.” There is also a farm belonging to the Marley estate still bearing the name of ‘Currer Laith;’ but it appears to have entirely escaped the notice of antiquarians that Marley Hall was once the honored abode of a Saville. This house was rebuilt by John Saville in the year 1627,. Whose arms and initials are still to be seen in several places. Miss Saville was married at Keighley, 1606, to Mr. Dean, son of the Bishop of Ossory in Ireland, who was then Dean of Kilkenny.  The wife of J. Saville was buried at Keighley.

1638. This family, as was common with the great and affluent of that period, maintained their hal or jester to go on errands, amuse and entertain the visitors.  ‘Sil o’ Marley’ it  is said, that as he was carrying into the distant fields a number of pies for the dinner of the laboring men, his appetite stimulated by the delicious odour of his burden—the Bingley bells began to chime; and, ‘as the fool thinketh, the bell tinketh,’ to him they said most audibly, “Eat pies, Sil,—eat pies, Sil ;“ to which invitation he as plainly and audibly responding “Yes, and I will,—-yes, and I will,” sat himself down and so manfully discussed the contents, that when he arrived at his journey’s end there was nothing left but the mutilated remains to place before the eyes of the hungry and disappointed ploughmen.
On another occasion, Sil having been sent with a gentleman, by whom he had been much teased during the day, to the river side, in order to show him the passage or ford, conducted him in a contrary direction, and to the deepest part of the water. The gentleman on observing this, cried out with impatience, “How, you silly rascal, how must I get over here?“  to which interrogation Sil coolly and provokingly replied, “You must swim over, swim over, Sir; Mr. Saville’s geese always swim over.

Matchless House. 
Mr Joseph Tuley a weaver, was a well known local and national pig breeder and used to win many prizes at shows up and down the country. But one day returning home from a show his prize pig died, and he vowed to show no more. The Duke of Devonshire built Mr. a Tuley a Gothic cottage on his small holding, Mr. Tuley named it after his favorite pig. In another book it says Tuley built his cottage from the proceeds of selling off spring from the sow called Matchless and the boar named Sampson. 
We have not yet been able to locate the exact whereabouts of the cottage, but looking at results from keighley Show Tuley is listed farmer of Exley Head. He must not have been able to resist showing pigs because we find him at the Yorkshire Show 1852 winning second place for best sow, and he is listed as from Matchless House, Keighley.
We have read in one farming book where is his described as a poor farmer who did without food to feed his pigs. In another book printed in 1857 we find him at Truewell Farm. Entries in newspapers giving show results in the late 50's give his address as Truewell.
A report that we came across in The Leeds Mercury Saturday, August 17, 1850. Tuley had living with him a boy aged 5 called Geoffrey Hutchingson, who was the son of John Hutchingson an excavator who was living in Bradford. One day the boy was out with three other boys who's ages ranged from 15 to 18, Lister Steel, John Leach and Aaron Duckworth age 15, farm laborer living with John Sugden at Sugdens Houses Ingrow Lane. The three older boys had borrowed a gun from William Shackleton to shoot small birds. Steel was holding the gun and Leach putting on the cap when the gun went off, discharging into the young boys chest. 

Mayfield House, Spring Gardens Lane.
1891 and 1881 Henry Wright Solicitor lived here, click here to see household, he moved here from the Oaklands

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Meadowfield House, Ingrow
Robert Clough retired Worsted Manufacturer, wife and daughter were living here in 1861

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Myrtle Grove, Bingley.
Built in the 1767 where Springhead Farm once stood by Johnson Atkinson, husband of Elizabeth Busfield, sole heiress of William Busfield Esq. of Ryshworth Hall.
Wesley, a Methodist preacher used to stop at the Grove and stay with Busfield when he was preaching in the area. In 1838 a great deal, if not all of the contents of the house were up for auction, including carriages, horses, harness and saddles. A pack of harries and several pointers to be sold by private contract, the housewas available to let with immediate possession. 

General Twiss also lived at the Grove. In 1856, Mr. Alfred Sharp moved in. The Sharp family moved out in 1881, returning in 1888. Click here to see 1881 household. The house became Bingley Town Hall.
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Myrtle Grove House, Cross Roads.
The Haggas's lived here 1881 and 1891, there were two dwellings, Myrtle House and Myrtle Grove, it can become confusing when researching this property as it was in the boundary of Bingley and they being a house of the same name in that town it is easy to get your wires crossed.
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Netherwood, Ferncliffe Drive, Utley.  Fred Ogden 1913. Must be a house of some substance as it has a gatehouse.
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Netherwood Hall, Spring gardens Lane (Or Skipton Road). Was where Cliffe Castle now stands was actually called Cliff Hall, but in some instances recorded as Netherwood Hall. It was completed by 1833 to designs by George Webster of Kendal
When Butterfield bought the property he dismantled it and his Steward James Wright bought it and rebuilt it up New Road Side, renaming it The Whins. Netherwood was built by  Christopher Netherwood a Keighley Lawyer who moved to Steeton Hall.

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Norwood House, High Spring Gardens.
Not to be confused with the nursing home in the same area.
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North Gate House, North Street.
From the 1861 we see the location is the next house to Oakroyd where William Smith, father of Prince is living.
Home of George Spencer, Attorney at law found in the census 1851-1861-1871 He was the son of William Spencer of Malsis Hall and brother to William of Raygill Hall, Lothersdale and uncle to Mary who married James Lund. George's daughter Elizabeth married Joseph Henry Craven of Strong Close House

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Oaks The. Oakworth Road.
Now an old peoples home.
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Oak Bank House.

keighley.plus.com

Built 1872 for John Haggas.  John's daughter Helen Amelia married Thomas Brigg, in 1901 she is  living here with her children and her widowed mother. In the Second World War and the house was used by evacuated families Later became the Boys Grammar School. Click here to see 1881 household

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Oaklands, Skipton Road.

1851 Edward Laycock, Timber merchant married to Isabella Brigg of Guard House 1902 Mrs. JJ Wright

The address for the death of  Gladys Lund five year old daughter of Frederick James Lund 
We are aware that some of the numbered houses on North Street were also called Oaklands, and these must not be confused with the actual house of that name. The address given for the death of George Emmet Spencer in 1912 was Oaklands, prior to this his address was 145 North Street, this is one of the houses that comes under the above. Also we suspect is an entry we found for John Bottomley Lund
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Oakroyd, Spring Gardens Lane.
Oakroyde stands at the bottom of Spring Gardens Lane, Opposite Oaklands. In it's prime the grounds were extensive. 
1917 became home to the Sisters of the Cross and Passion Order. 
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Oakworth House
There is a vast amount of information about this house on the internet we did not feel we could improve on it.
victorianturkishbath.org home of Sir Isaac Holden  oakworthvillage.com  Vale n Dale
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Oakworth Hall
gateserver.net    oakworthvillage.com  pricex.com

We believe that the people stood outside are members of the Thornton family.

1066 - Mentioned in the Domesday Book as the Manor of Oakworth. It was given by William the Conqueror to Gilbert Tyson.
1366 - Property of the de Vaux family possible descendants of the Tyson family. 
1598 - Alvery Copley, the last member of the de Vaux family, died and the 32 tenants who farmed the lands were constituted Lords of Oakworth Manor.  
1662 - The famous Baptist Minister John Moore was born at Oakworth Hall. He was a friend and close colleague of the famous William Mitchell who was imprisoned for preaching in 1687.  It as been suggested that the old building was burned down to smoke out a "priest hole" that had existed beneath the Hall since the Reformation. 
1691 - Oakworth Hall is mentioned in the Keighley Rolls in the entry for December 12, 1691. Some travellers visited the Squire, Anthony Moore, at Oakworth Hall. 
1702 - The rebuilding of the Hall was possibly completed by William Clough in its present form. The date 1702 is over the door on the south side of the Farm Cottage. 
1708 - William Clough of Oakworth Hall is mentioned in the Haworth Court Rolls. 
1715 - Jamas Haggas of Oakworth Hall bound as an apprentice to a Halifax weaver. 

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Oakworth Manor 
At some point before becoming a nursing home Mr. Harrison Jaques had lived here. A  large early 20th century dwelling that is set within substantial grounds
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Oakworth Road House, Oakworth Rd 
William Ickringill   1913
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Oxenhope (Old) Hall.
Rushworth 1805. Photo haworth-village.org.uk

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Park House, Steeton which was built in 1630 with additions made in 1685 and 1693. We have read somewhere that Sugden built Park House, so either there was another Park House or Sugden did a rebuild. Joseph Craven bought the house from William Sugden in 1840
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Parkfield House, Thwaites Brow

Ickringill Thomas 1913 a Bradford textile mill owner and despite his wealth never owned a car and used to walk  to Stockbridge to catch the bus.

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Park-wood house, Parkwood Street Alfred Baldwin  1913. The house now stands lonely and in a sorry state. 1936 Mr. Alfred Baldwin, of Parkwood House, Keighley, a director of James Baldwin & Company, Limited, brassfounders and engineers, Devonshire Works, Keighley. died last week, aged 67

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Pepper Hill House, see The Elms

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Pine wood, Oakworth

In 1916 Mrs E H Illingworth lived here. In the 1927 telephone directory we find an entry for Pinewood Residential Hotel Tel:100  We hear that there is a greetings card with a photograph of Pine Wood sent from an M. Blosfields to the tenants of Pinewoods, who were Mrs. and Mrs. Donisthorpe, dated 1979. Demolished in 1936. All that remains is the lodge, now called Pinewoods.

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Ponden Hall, Stanbury.
Owned by the Heaton's. Possibly Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering Heights.  baronage.co.uk
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Poplars The, Oakworth Road
Allan Gill 1913. Now flats
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Prospect House, Black Hill,
Built about 1800, In 1881 Thomas Wall Wine Merchant lived here, click here to see census, his widow was living here in 1901. Later Benjamin F Marriner. 
From Keighley Past and Present "Prospect House, romantically perched on a part of the above-mentioned crescent-formed ground as steep as the roof that covers the fabric. Unfortunately, wood, the choicest element in nature's painting, is here but scantily bestowed. A good plantation of full-grown trees and evergreen under-wood encircling this house would add materially to its comfort and beauty, and leave a pleasing impression upon the mind of the beholder, enhanced by contrast with the naked aspect of the background; and we notice that its owner, Mr. Thomas Wall, Wine and Spirit Merchant, has begun on a small scale to supply by art what nature has denied. On the very brow of this eminence is a good house, built, it is said, for the threefold purpose of enjoying the distant views and bracing air of this upland region, and the not very peculiar whim of excluding every mill-chimney from the sight of its occupant".

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Prospect House, Braithwaite
Close to the church St Mathews
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Quarry House, Green Head Lane

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Rectory The

		This was the Rectory until 1899. To arrive there, at the bottom of Blind Lane, to the left of the Ship Inn was Rectory Row, a little further on you turned left and at the bottom of the drive was a gate house. Where the drive and Rectory Row meet became Rectory Lane, this continued till it meet Back Lane and a way called The Nick which went round the boundary of the Rectory land and came out on Highfield Lane. The house was large and sat high in extensive gardens, surrounded by fields it would have had a clear view of the church and town. We can see from a 1912 map that the house was still standing, much of the land that once part of the grounds now built on. It would have stood somewhere near where the Gas Club on Luton Street was. In 1871 William Bustfield clergyman was there with his wife and family with a gardener and housemaid.
		The Rectory in this photo is still standing but now a private house on Woodville Road, sitting on the bend just before the junction with View Road.

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Red Holt, Hainworth

Red Holt

 Red Holt is the original house built for the son of Sir John Clough, Henry Smith Clough J.P 1913. Built around 1889 the architects being Mawson and Hudson,  the gate house built after 1887, served both Red Holt and Haincliffe House. Red Holt was used as a residential home for the elderly until 2006.
Information from Allan Smith: 
The following is a mixture of what my mother told me, and my own recollections supplemented with trace of more recent research. 'Red Holt' was built in 1889 in the Arts and Crafts style as a wedding present from Sir John Clough (not yet knighted), for his son, Henry Smith Clough, and Elizabeth Ambler. They were married by the Rev. John J. Maguinness at St. Lukes, Manningham, on Wednesday 26 June 1889. Elizabeth was the daughter of Jeremiah Ambler of Selbourne Villas, Manningham, manufacturer, and Sarah Jane Walker, who were married at Bradford Parish Church (now the Cathedral) on Wednesday 20 December 1865. The architects for 'Red Holt' were Mawson & Hudson of Exchange Buildings, Bradford, and the house was extended in 1902 to include a billiard room and various other facilities. 
The architect for the Lodge at the bottom of the drive, was David Wilkinson Weatherhead, and herein lies some family interest. He was the brother of Sir John Clough's mother, Nancy,  mentioned previously regarding Keighley pubs and inn as being the daughter of William Weatherhead, landlord of the Commercial Inn on Church Green. For more information about the Clough family please see the family page.
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Riddlesden Hall - East
Taken from The rise of the old dissent, exemplified in the life of Oliver Heywood 
Of the owners of Riddlesden Hall, Mr. Heywood's account is not favorable. In the time of the war it was sold to Mr. James Murgatroyd by Mr. Rushworth, a man of indifferent character, who reserved a room for his own residence, and as much corn and malt as would maintain him, but sold them also, and died miserably at Keighley. Of his two sons, the eldest, named John, died in York Castle, a prisoner for debt, and his younger son lived in an extremely poor condition at Riddlesden. The Murgatroyds were no better. John Murgatroyd succeeded his father; he was a profane debauched person; disinherited his eldest son, who married a daughter of Mr. Savile of Marley. The other four sons inherited the estate in quick succession, killing themselves by intemperance. When they were dead, the estate came to the eldest son, who enjoyed it five years, but was extravagant, and mortgaged it. There are further notices of misconduct, extravagance, vice and imprisonment, and finally the sale of Riddlesden-hall, which Mr. Heywood says was a magnificent house, built new by Mr. James Murgatroyd, who was accounted worth 2000/. a-year. It became the property of Mr. Edmund Starkey. "That family, the Murgatroyds, is the most dreadful instance in the country; all that know tell strange passages of them."

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Riddlesden Hall - West, Keighley.
        
This was for a long time the residence of the Maud family. The house eventually came into the owner ship of the Leach family by marriage. Later John Greenwood of Knoll, Keighley, bought the house from Thomas Leach. 
John Benson Sedgwick who was married to Greenwoods daughter Sarah lived here in 1857 until his death in 1873, Sarah continued to liver her until her death, in 1881 they had five servants. 

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River Worth House, see Ingrow House

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Rockfield
Joseph Summerscales, Ironfounder [W.& S. Summerscales Coop Ironworks]. William Vint 1891

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Royd House
1841 James Paget occupation farmer, acreage unknown. 1881 Thomas E. SMITH Machine Maker And Farmer Of 66 Acres and family lived here. View household

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Rishworth Hall / Rushforth Hall (Ryshworth Hall) Bingley
1807

The Eltofts sold it in 1591 to Edward Binns & Abm Binns. It was later sold in 1672 to W Busfield by Abraham Bynnes esq. J.P. Others that have lived there are Alfred Harris, Mr Dunlope and Mr. Sugden. 1837 Frederick Greenwood  Esq. is listed in White's Directory of 1837 as living here.
In 1844 Anne Marsh (Marsh Caldwell) writes:  Mr. W Ellis and his sister Miss Fanny.  Mr. Ellis the father (not at dinner) is a mill owner and has a mill just in front of Ryshworth drawing room windows. Mr. L. Briggs is recorded as living here in 1915

Taken from The rise of the old dissent, exemplified in the life of Oliver Heywood - Page 203: When the Non-Conformists were allowed to hold meetings in 1673 under licence from the king, Mr. Heywood obtained a licence for Rushforth Hall, of which Joshua Walker was the tenant under Mr. Busfield, who, however, soon compelled him to have the licence withdrawn. 
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Rushey Hall, Damems
Used to be called Rushyfall.
There are numerous entries in the parish register for the Ropers at Rushyfall in the early 1600's. We have found a burial entry for Sarah Roper aged 70 in 1825 at Rushey Hall.
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Saint Ives / Harden Grange, Harden

Built 1616, the home of the Ferrands. William Busfield Ferrand inherited the estate in 1854 and changed the name to St Ives. Harden Grange was rebuilt in 1855. The 1852 OS map shows the access to the Grange being at Cross Gates Lane. The grand gateposts can be seen halfway up Alter Lane bridleway. The music room at Harden Grange holds a stained glass window designed in 1862 by Burne-Jones depicting the Wedding of Sir Tristram.  friendsofstives.org.uk   cecilhigginsartgallery.org   fu jen White's Directory of 1837 give Edward Ferrand Esq, living at St Ives and Walker  Ferrand , Esq at Harden grange. Click here to see 1881 household.
The hall was used as a base by General Fairfax during the civil war; a table found in the house was inscribed: "This table was at Harden Hall when the troops under General Fairfax were encamped at Harden Moor MDCXLII. In the 19th century, the estate was called alternately Halton Grange and Harden Grange. The present name may be after a holy well in the area which is associated with the 7th Century abbess St. Iva.  A granite obelisk near the lake commemorates the career of Busfield Ferrand (1809-1889), a Member of Parliament and magistrate. 

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Sandywood House Had been a House -Cotton Mill - Girls school for young ladies - Y.M.C.A - Crotona Youth Club - Keighley News Office

			A house to have  had such a varied usage as this one is hard to imagine. We can see that during the so called refurbishments that the left side was sliced in order to be flush with North Street, the first and second floor windows on the right appear to be original. The right side looks like it may be the original gable wall. The refurbishments did the building no favors and while it is nice to see old buildings being put to good use, it is sad to see something that was so grand look such a mess.

Top right photo by Alan Smith. In the lower middle photo Sandywood House can be seen just behind the mechanic Institute building.

The house stood here long before North Street and Skipton Road were built, this would have been the last house before leaving the town on the road that would have gone approximately along Cook Lane and Lord Street, and then up Spring Gardens Lane, and was used as a landmark by people when giving directions.

We find the first reference to the house in 1720 by John Warburton who describes the way out of Keighley as from the Cross, along Cook Lane past Mr. Blakies house at Townfield Gate (north Street did not exist until 1786)  and then to Sandywood House. It is also mentioned in the Kings Highway in Craven that tells us that the route to and out of Keighley was down Park Lane, Coney Lane to around the area that Fleece Street would later be and on to and past Sandy Wood House and Delf Close Gate at the foot of Spring Gardens Lane.

Believed to have been built as a house by John Oldridge then converted in to a mill for cotton, we have seen mention that this was the first Cotton mill in Keighley. We doubt that Oldridge built the original house, he either rebuilt it, or it was one of his ancestors that built it, if the date of build is correct at 1720 and Oldridge is supposed to have emigrated in 1819 he would have been a 100 years old. In Keighley Parish Church we find a tablet "John Oldridge, a native of Keighley, who died at sea on his passage from New York, 29th July, 1832. Hester Oldridge, his daughter, accidentally drowned in the Delaware 16 August 1820 age 24.  She was disinterred in 1824, and re-buried in Keighley Churchyard. Also, Cyrus Oldridge, son of John, who died I3th. February, 1832, aged 29, and was buried in the vaults of Great Queen Street Chapel London". 

We have read that the daughter who traveled out to America with Oldridge went to the dock to meet her sister who had traveled out to be with them, eager to embrace each other they ran and sadly one of them slipped and fell into the water. It as also been said that she was the first body to be sent from America to England.

Oldridge spent a lot of money trying trying to make a drinking spirit, something in the style of whiskey from mint, this venture failed dismally. We have also read that he was persuaded to leave for America by the Sugdens, this might have been Cyrus Oldridge the son.
We have also read that Oldridge was also a manufacture of hair restorer of wide reputation called "Balm of Columbia". The large garden at the rear of the house was used for growing balm for the continued production of the remedy.  

The mill was powered by water wheel from water obtained from two streams, one came down Highfield lane and came down near to where the Catholic Church stands, where it meets with another stream that came down Spring Gardens Lane, the two streams united where it was then carried across the road in a culvert to the wheel.  It is from Hodgson's book that he mentions the Calvert across the road, but we have read of the stream running under the road and the house, making it's was down to Eastwood House. Hodgson also tells us that the wheel was connected to the basement floor and the power conveyed to the top story, and that it was here that Oldridge spun the cotton yarn. 

1829 we found and entry in a directory: Academies & Schools, Sharman Elizabeth (ladies' day and boarding) Skipton road, we also found one for 1822, Sharman Miss, (girls) South street. It would appear that it was rented from the Sugden's.

1834 we know that the property was owned  by James Greenwood Sugden of Eastwood House, along with Strawberry Cottage, whether he actually lived there or not we are not sure.
1837 the death of John Sharman of Sandy Wood House age 70.

1838 George Spencer, Attorney at law lived here before moving to North Gate House.

When it opened and for how many years we do not know, what we do know is that it was a boarding and day school for young ladies and that the mother of one of the biggest textile families Clough, attended this school, and had she not she might not have meet her husband as she was not a native of Keighley.
1841 Census shows the head of the household Catholic Priest Robert Gibson, Elizabeth Sharman is the School Governess.  
1851 census and the head is George Smith, registrar of BMD's, his wife Elizabeth is a School Mistress. Mary Williams is Governess. The young ladies are taught music, singing and dancing. The ages range from 9 to 15
Death notice: Thursday, December 23, 1858 At Fulneck age 63 Miss Sharman formerly of Sandy Wood House.

1861 Census: Unmarried Sarah Sugden (of the Sugden's of Eastwood House) and her widowed sister Maria Louisa are here with two servants, a cook and a housemaid. We have read in a document stored in Keighley Library an extract of a letter from Tom C. Butterfield to Mr. Stansfield in 1913 which supposes that the school was run by Miss Sugden, the author does at the start of the letter point out that some of the facts might need verifying, and we suspect that the memory may well have played tricks on them unless Miss Sugden did run the school for a short time, but this is doubtful unless it was she who actually owned the house as the school transferee to Torrs Hall, Ingelton. I do not think it would be unreasonable to assume that she did own the house, as we know that it was the Sugdens of Eastwood House that had business dealings with Oldrige and it would not be too hard to imagine that the Sugdens acquired the house through those dealings and we know that James G Sugden owned the property, did she inherit from him?

1871 Sarah Sugden now aged 57 is still living there with three servants. The entry just says Sandywood, the entry after actually has the word house after it and this is for a William Plummer, a master at the Grammar School, he is living there with his sister Martha.

It is believed that after being a school it possibly became two dwellings, so from the above for 1871 I think this must be the case.

More than once applications were submitted to allow the selling of beer, the first attempt being made was by Isaac Bailey in September 1876 and at least two attempts by Joseph Dixon, the first being 19th August 1881 and then 16 Sep 1881 when the licence was refused, the Midland Railway Company were prepared to transfer licence of Midland Hotel Keighley as they had no plans to replace it. One person who objected was Pie Leach, he held the land next door at where he would build Balmoral House,  what is now 114 North Street, and if you look up to the first floor, above the door you will see Pie left his mark.

In Hodgsons book which was published in 1879 he refers to the Bowling Green and Bowling Club at Sandywood house. The bowling green was where the mill dam had once been. We found an item in the Bradford Observer 1878 where the Bowling Club at Sandywood House had been used as a soup kitchen for the poor. We found another item in the same paper but for Oct 1882 where the club was to come to an end. Looking at the dates above for the applied licence, it is possible that the bowling club wanted to serve drinks.

1881 census shows William Taylor as the Club Proprietor, There is no sign of the address being Sandywood House, and we are not able to find it in the census, but going by the streets either side of this entry we feel that it is likely to be the old house, now divided into two. The address is shown as 78, North St, Keighley. 76 North St is James J. Biggs Letter Press Printer. The jump is then to 54 North St, this would take us to the other side of the town hall square, as there were no dwelling houses after Sandywood house till then, this gives us confidence that we are correct on our assumption. Going the other way is 80 North St and then to Sand Street. So either building had commenced at this part of the road, or the old house had now been spilt into 3 units. There is no mention of Balmoral House, so Pie Leach had not yet built his house, which would be the next dwelling up. 
In the letter mentioned above it goes on to say that the house was used as a bowling club and then passed to Mr. Woodrow and returned to a private residence. The letter goes onto say it then passed to Mr. Green Timber Merchant, which we have proved via the 1901 census. 

1891 census shows Ellen Burns Dress and mantle maker with her elderly mother, sister and nephew, I think we can safely assume that it is back to being one dwelling.

1901 Census shows Joseph Green and his family with two servants. So had the house gone back to being one dwelling. 

1911 Samuel Laycock fish, fruit and game dealer. His wife Lydia a dressmaker. 

1912-1913, the house was altered around this time and had come into the hands of Robert Clough of Yew Bank and it was he who rented it to the Y.M.C.A. While the house was undergoing the alterations a fire broke out, but due to the swift action of the fire brigade the damage was limited.

The W.M.C.A moved from their premises at 40 Cavendish Street to Sandywood House. We contacted the W.M.C.A to see if they could help us in our research, they were unable to provide comprehensive information but the details they did give have helped us narrow down the dates they occupied the house. Keighley YMCA was based at 40 Cavendish Street in 1910, but by 1913 had moved to Sandywood House and from an article  in the Keighley News we know they were there in 1932. 
 
Crotona Youth Club. This was set up by Keighley Mayor John Henderson Esq JP, we know he held office 1935-1936 Sometime in the early 1900's it was reconditioned and renamed Crotona Buildings, I was guess that it would have been around this time.

By October 1951 the Keighley News had acquired the building for their own use and they developed it incorporating the existing building which now had ground floor shops, one of which became the Keighley News advertising office. 

Thanks must go to Alan Smith for digging out the census for us.

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