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Cowling, Craven history
The village is Saxon in origin and is recorded in the Domesday Book as ‘Collinge’ The name means Coll’s people or tribe. Originally the village comprised three separate hamlets namely Ickornshaw, Middleton, Gill and Cowling Hill. It was only following the construction of the main Keighley to Colne road (A6068) and the building of large mills alongside the road that what is now regarded as the main village was constructed providing terraced cottage homes for the mill workers.
Famous people from Cowling
Philip Snowden was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the first two Labour governments. He was born in the village of Ickornshaw in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Snowden spoke in the local dialect of Cowling on a 78rpm gramophone produced by the Yorkshire Dialect Society in the 1930s.
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