Keighley's
Market Charter.
© 2004 Christopher M Kelly
In 2005 , Keighley celebrates 700 years of having
a market charter, for on 17th October 1305, King Edward I granted the
privilege to Henry de Kighley (Keighley), who held the title of "Steward
and Master Forester of Blackburnshire, under the Earl of Lincoln",
a market charter to "hold a Market, Fair, and Free Warren in Keighley".
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Keighley
in the Domesday Book.
© 1974 Ian Dewhirst
CYHHA,
an Old English thane passed otherwise into oblivion, had cultivated a
forest clearing and given his name to what we now call Keighley. This
the Norman clerks found, whilst compiling William the Conqueror's Domesday
Book in 1086: "In Chichelai, Ulchel, and Thole, and Ravensuar, and
William had six carucates to be taxed".
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Description
of Keighley's Coat of Arms.
© 1974 Ian Dewhirst
The Herald's College granted the Borough
Arms of Keighley on February 7th, 1883, after the incorporation of the
borough by Royal Charter on July 28th, 1882.
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Further
local history and archieves can be found on
KeighleyWeb and also the Keighley
History Society website
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