Kildwick

Kildwick, or Kildwick-in-Craven, is a village and civil parish of the district of Craven in North Yorkshire, England.It lists the Lord of the Childeuuic manor as Arnkeld with about 240 acres (100 hectares) of ploughland and an Anglo Saxon church.However, William the Conqueror shortly deposed all the Angle-Dane lords and rewarded his great Norman warriors.Fragments of 10th-century crosses have been excavated from its walls, evidence of the Anglo Saxon church built here before the Norman conquest.[9] During the 15th and 16th centuries the church was lengthened, with further extensions eastwards so that it is now one of the longest in Yorkshire hence known locally as 'The Lang Kirk of Craven'.[14] Changes have taken place since then, including extension of the chancel and a further restoration of the nave in 1901–03 by the successors in the Lancaster practice, Austin and Paley.[22] Kildwick is a landmark in Craven being the point at which the main road from Keighley to Skipton crosses the River Aire.Kildwick is made a natural crossing place by the spur of land from Crosshills that dramatically narrows a wide valley prone to flooding.It was promoted mostly by textile manufacturers of Settle[27] on the grounds that transportation costs to be greatly reduced since waggons on good roads need half the number of horses required for carrying packs.
Etymology: "kilde" in Old Norse means the large flood-plain
St Andrew's, Kildwick Parish Church
The milestone on the Keighley and Kendal Turnpike
The new A629 built 1968–88 bypasses Kildwick village
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