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| | GENUKI: Keighley Parish information from White's 1837. |
 | | Keighley was anciently written Kyghlay, and afterwards Kighley, and was long the manor and residence of a knightly family of its own name, one of whom "Gilbertus Kyghlay, of Utley," was buried here in 1203, as appears by an inscription on a gravestone, still remaining in the church. |
 | | Keighley affords few materials for general history; but it is recorded of it that in the civil wars, in the reign of Charles 1, it was occupied (1645) by the troops of Parliament, who were surprised by a party of Royalists from Skipton Castle, under Captain Hughes, and many of them made prisoners. |
 | | The Free School, in Keighley, was founded in 1713, by John Drake, who endowed it with a garden and house, occupied by the master, and several houses and about 7A of land in Keighley, now let for £162 a year. |
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