Mapping Farnhill and Kildwick
(1577-2012)
Theearliestmapwe
knowofdatesfrom1577.
DrawnbyChristopher
Saxton,itformspartofan
atlasthatbelongedto
WilliamCecilLord
Burghley,ElizabethI’s
SecretaryofState.
FromJohnSpeed'sTheatreoftheEmpireofGreatBritaine,publishedin1611/12.Both
FarnhillandKildwickHallandshown.
Fromthe1637editionofWilliamCamden’sBritannia.Themap,byWilliamHole,
isbasedonthe1577Saxtonmap.
ByWillemandJoanBlaeu,1648.
Aremarkablydetailed
earlystrip-map.Partof
JohnOgilby’s“Brittania”,
firstpublishedin1675.
Thenumbersindicatethe
distancetoLondon,in
miles.
RichardBlome(1635-1705)producedagreatnumberofmaps,butnonewere
original.Thisisfromhis1681collectionSpeed'sMapsEpitomiz'd,basedonthe
earliermapofJohnSpeed.
ByRobertMorden,firstpublishedinthe1695editionofCamden'sBritanniain1695.
FurthereditionsofBritannia(withthemapunchanged)appearedin1715,1722,
1753and1772.
FromTheRoyalEnglishAtlas,publishedin1720,byEmmanuelBowen.Thefirstof
ourmapstoshow(some)roads.Farnhilllookstohavealargenumberofbuildings;
compareitwithSkipton.
Another(undated)mapbyEmmanuelBowen.Ithasthefollowingdedication:“To
theMostNobleCharlesDukeofRichmond,LenosandAubigny,EarlofMarcheand
Darnly,BaronofSetteringtonandTerbolton,ThisMapisDedicatedbyHisGrace's
MostObedienthumbleServantEman:Bowen”.
FromEnglishAtlasbyJosephEllis,1766.Farnhilldoesn’tappearatallonthisone!
Partofthe1768Kildwick
Parishmapcommissioned
byChristChurch,Oxford.
NotetheroadtoLondonat
theverybottom.
ReproducedbypermissionofChrist
Church,Oxford.
FromThomasJeffereys
1771-75Surveyof
Yorkshire.
TheJeffereysmap,atone
inchtoonemile,showed
detailsabsentfrom
earliermaps.
Thisistheearliestofour
mapstoshowtheLeeds-
Liverpoolcanal–started
in1773.
Fromthe1770s,thismap
showsthelandownedby
theCurrerfamilyin
Kildwick.
PartofPaterson’sItinerary,
anotherremarkablydetailed
linearroadmap.Thisone
datingfrom1785.
FromTheNewandCorrectEnglishAtlas,publishedin1787,byJohnCary.
An1805mapoftheDeaneryofCraven.WithaninterestingspellingofSkipton.
Anotherlandmarkmapofourarea–thefirsttoshowtheKeighleytoSkiptonturnpike
road.PublishedbyVernor,Hood&Sharpe,London1808,inBritton'sBeautiesof
EnglandandWales.WelcometoKildwich?
The1813,hand-drawn,Swiremapof
Farnhilltownship.
FarnhillWoodisclearlyvisible–
spreadingacrossbothsidesofthe
turnpikeroad.
ChristopherGreenwood’s1818Mapof
Yorkshire.BorninWakefield,hismapof
Yorkshirewasbasedonhisownsurveying.
AmapshowingtheparishesofCravenintheearly19
th
century.Notethelargesizeof
Kildwickparishrelativetosomeoftheothers.
1830BradshawmapoftheLeeds-LiverpoolCanal.
Also1830,thisispartoftheWalkerNicholsandPriestlycanalmapofGreatBritain.In
additiontocanals,thismapalsoshowsthelocationofmineraldepositsthatwouldbe
transportedonthecanals.
The1838Farnhilltithemap.
Aninteresting1844map.Thereis
noroadconnectingFarnhillto
Bradley.
ThefirstOrdnanceSurveymapof
thearea.1849;6-inch-to-mile.
Aninterestingvariantonthe
previousmap–withGeological
featuresadded(1878).
PartofBacon’s“CommercialandLibraryMapofYorkshire”fromabout1900.
Partofa1903mapbySmithandRankin,showingthe“GeographicalDistributionof
VegetationinYorkshire”.
AmapoftheFarnhillestate,splitintolots;drawn-
upforthe1911sale.
Theauctionfailedtoselltheestateanditwas
boughtintactbyMr.JohnRiddihough.
Partofa1938Street
MapofYorkshire.We
wererightonthejoin
betweentwopages.
Abeautifulhand-drawnscalemapof
FarnhillandKildwick.Createdforthe
localHomeGuardin1940.
Amapdatingfromthe1950s,
whenKildwickHallwasrunasa
HotelandCountryClub.Thisis
fromthehotelbrochure.
Acompositemapofoldrailwayroutes.ThefirstKildwick
railwaystationwasclosedfollowingthe1875crash;the
second,calledKildwickandCrosshills,in1965.
A1980mapofFarnhillvillageconservationareamadebyCravenDistrictCouncil.Redshows
listedbuildings;greenshowsareaswithtreepreservationorders.
Froma2000geologicalsurvey.
ApairofOSmapsofthelocalarea,from1986(left)and2011(right).SpottheKildwickto
Keighleydual-carriageway.
In1993theDepartmentofTransportproducedthisplanformakingtheA629adual-
carriagewaybetweenKildwickandSnaygill–includingan“interesting”suggestionfor
CononleyLaneEnd.
A2012GoogleEarthviewof
partofFarnhill–withFarnhill
Woodatthetopandthehall
justleft-of-centre.
Thesameareaasthepreviousslide,shownusingLIDARimaging(2012).Theimageshown
ontheleftisaDSM(DigitalSurfacemodel)view,showingthesurfaceoftheearthandthe
objectsonit;theoneontherightisaDTM(DigitalTerrainmodel)view,showingthesurface
withalltheobjectsremoved.
LIDARhasapplicationsinsurveyingandarchaeology.
Can you help ?
TheFarnhillandKildwickLocalHistoryGroupwouldliketothanktheKeighley
andDistrictDigitalArchive,whichsuppliedmanyofthemapsusedinthis
slideshow;othershavebeendonatedtoourarchivebylocalresidents.
Doyouhaveanyotherinterestingmapsofthelocalarea?Ifso,pleasecontact
usathistory@farnhill.co.uk