Frizinghall

Frizinghall is a district in the Heaton ward of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire,[1] lying 2 miles (3 km) north of the city centre close to the town of Shipley,[2] itself a part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District along with such other nearby towns as Keighley and Ilkley.[3]

Looking west up Emm Lane from the A650 (Keighley Road)

Frizinghall derives its name from a type of rough woollen cloth made in the area (frieze), and the hall was somewhere in the settlement (ing) where the frieze was made.[4] Others believe the name comes from Old English; The Frisian's nook of land (Frisian being a personal name)[5] or from Furze-covered Haugh (haugh being an enclosure).[6]

Frizinghall is notable as the birthplace of famous cricketer (and later commentator) Jim Laker.[7]

Frizinghall is served by a railway station on the Airedale line which has frequent services to Bradford Forster Square, Leeds, Shipley, Ilkley, Keighley and Skipton.[8]

The fictitious town of Frizinghall in Wilkie Collins' book The Moonstone is near the Yorkshire coast.[9]

References
  1. BMDC Heaton Ward Polling Districts (Map). Bradford District Council. October 2005.
  2. "288" (Map). Bradford & Huddersfield. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319244852.
  3. Shand, Alistair (13 March 2017). "Renewed calls for Keighley and Shipley to break away from Bradford Council control". Keighley News. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  4. Cudworth, William (1896). Manningham, Heaton and Merton (Townships of Bradford) Treated historically and topographically. Bradford: Cudworth. pp. 261–262. OCLC 499689891.
  5. Smith, A H (1961). The place names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Part 3, Morley Wapentake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 245. OCLC 1052822972.
  6. Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 188, 225. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  7. Wheeler, Sam (29 July 2006). "The day Laker turned Ashes into one-man show". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  8. Kilner, Will (29 March 2010). "Study highlights new rail stations success". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  9. "The Moonstone". www.wilkie-collins.info. Retrieved 17 November 2017.

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