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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Kildwick
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Kildwick is a landmark as where the major road from Keighley to Skipton crosses the River Aire. The village’s amenities include a primary school, church and public house. When you visit Kildwick, Walkfo brings Kildwick places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Kildwick Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Kildwick
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With 18 audio plaques & Kildwick places for you to explore in the Kildwick area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Kildwick places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Kildwick history
Etymology
The first known documentation of Kildwick’s name is as Childeuuic in the Domesday Book. In Latin, the digraph ch is pronounced /kʰ/ not /tʃ/ so its pronunciation was the same as it is now. The meaning of its name depends on whether it was named by the conquering Vikings.
Property
The Domesday Book of 1086 has the first record of Kildwick in writing. It lists the Lord of the Childeuuic manor as Arnkeld with about 240 acres (100 hectares) of ploughland and an Anglo Saxon church. William the Conqueror deposed all the Angle-Dane lords and rewarded his great Norman warriors.
Population
1379 Poll Tax recorded Kildwick township as having only 10 households, all paying minimum tax. 1672 Hearth Tax counted 25 households in the township with mostly but one fireplace, but also the 14-hearthed manor house. 1821 parish registered 8,605 inhabitants. 1831 parish was 9,926 however township only 190. 1881 district had been divided so district down to 8,923.
St Andrew’s Church
Fragments of 10th-century crosses have been excavated from its walls, evidence of the Anglo Saxon church built here before the Norman conquest. Cecilia de Romille gave the church to Bolton Priory in Wharfedale. After the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 Scots raiders sacked Bingley and Bradford Churches, but spared Keighley and Kildwick Churches because they were dedicated to St. Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. In the reign of Henry VIII under the patronage of Christ Church the church was almost entirely rebuilt.
Kildwick Parish
Ancient Kildwick Parish was unusually large for it included the townships of Kildwick, Bradley Both, Cononley, Cowling, Holden, Eastburn, Farnhill, Glusburn and Ikornshaw. Sutton-in-Craven was constituted as a separate ecclesiastical district in 1869.
Education
In 1563 and 1564 the Archbishop of York’s Visitation Act books records a schoolmaster at Kildwick. And the national Hearth tax of 1672 records “George Ellmott for the Freeschoole, 2 hearths” untaxed. In 2012 the School is adjacent to the parish church on Priest Bank Road. It caters for girls and boys age range 4 to 11.
Why visit Kildwick with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Kildwick places with Walkfo Kildwick to hear history at Kildwick’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Kildwick has 18 places to visit in our interactive Kildwick map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Kildwick, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Kildwick places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Kildwick & the surrounding areas.
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Best Kildwick places to visit
Kildwick has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Kildwick’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Kildwick’s information audio spots:
Silsden A.F.C.
Silsden A.F.C. are a football club that play in West Yorkshire, England. They are currently members of the Northern Counties East League Premier Division.
Lund’s Tower
Lund’s Tower is a stone-built folly situated to the south-west of the North Yorkshire village of Sutton-in-Craven. It is listed in the National Heritage List for England at Grade II.
Visit Kildwick plaques
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here Kildwick has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Kildwick plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Kildwick using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Kildwick plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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