Keighley

Keighley (pronounced Keith-Leigh or ) (not Kee-Ley as many southeners think) is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, north west of Bradford, on the meeting point of the River Aire and the River Worth. It is within the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford and part of the Bront? Country. It is located at

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The towns industries have typically been in textiles, particularly wool and cotton processing. The population grew from less than 6000 in 1800 to more than 60,000 in 1850 during a boom spurred by these industries.

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County: Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count. Counts are called "earls" in post-Celtic Great Britain and Ireland - the term is from Old Norse jarl and was introduced by the Vikings - but there is no correlation between "county" and "earldom." Rather, t...

West Yorkshire: West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. It borders on Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire....