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Keighley (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 53 53 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 53.8833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 55 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.9167 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in deep valley of Pennine moors on the banks of the River Wye. The medieval church, with a possible Saxon cross fragment, was rebuilt in the 19th century. The town developed rapidly in the 19th century with its textile industry and construction of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. |
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| Keighley (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Keighley (British English-P,U,N)
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| Chichelai (H,V,Anglo-Saxon-P,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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Keighley (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| town (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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