The route was formerly part of the Midland Railway line that connected Skipton and Ilkley via Addingham.

The current city boundaries date from 1 April 1974, when the county borough of Bradford was merged with the borough of Keighley, the urban districts of Baildon, Bingley, Denholme, Ilkley, Shipley and Silsden, along with the Queensbury parts of Queensbury and Shelf Urban District and the parishes of Addingham, and Steeton with Eastburn from Skipton Rural District.

During the Reformation, Henry VIII dissolved the monastery in Bolton Abbey, and while most of Addingham accepted the Reformation, Richard Kirkham remained faithful to Catholicism and was subsequently arrested in 1578, tried, and executed in York alongside William Lacy.

During the English Civil War in 1642, Addingham was probably mainly Royalist, as several villagers are thought to have helped to defend Skipton Castle from the Parliamentarians.

In Addingham, the last mill to close was at Low Mill in 1976.

* Sailor, Addingham near Ilkley ; Jolly Sailor at St Athan and at Sandown, Isle of Wight

On Valentine ’ s Day, February 14, 2003, on the eve of the Iraqi invasion by the Americans and the British, Ono heard about a romantic couple holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in Addingham, West Yorkshire.

The railway has a long-term objective to extend the line in both directions south to the West Yorkshire village of Addingham and north towards the North Yorkshire market town of Skipton ( where the E & BSR could one day interchange with services on the Airedale Line ).

As of 2012, the E & BASR currently plans to extend their services into Skipton ( further up the line, a further 2 miles in length-to whom the railway could interchange with services on the Airedale Line ), as well as to reconstruct platform 2 at Bolton Abbey station itself, " as part of a possible extension down to Addingham ".

The area around Addingham is thought to have been populated from at least Bronze Age times, indicated by the ' cup and ring ' carved stones that can be found on Addingham Moor.

A Cup and Ring marked rock on top of Addingham Moor

There are evidences of civilisation around Addingham as far back as the late Mesolithic, Neolithic and early Bronze Ages, as indicated by the remains of early man in the form of flint tools on Rombald's Moor, which may date back to around 11, 000 B. C.

The first ' fixed ' artefacts are the ' cup and ring ' marked stones, several of which can be found on top of Addingham Moor and Ilkley Moor to the east, which date back to the early Bronze Age, around 1800 BC.

The first evidence of settlements come from the Iron Age-evidence of major tree clearance dating back to 700 BC has been found, as well as quern-stones on Addingham Moorside.

Remains of an Iron Age settlement can also be found on Addingham Low Moor.

The river source is at Beckermonds, Langstrothdale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and flows through Kettlewell, Grassington, Bolton Abbey, Addingham, Ilkley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Otley, Wetherby and Tadcaster.

The now-closed and lifted Midland line continued west of Ilkley via Addingham, Bolton Abbey and Embsay to Skipton.

The section of the river from its source to around Addingham is known as Upper Wharfedale and has a very different character to the river downstream.

The section from the river's source to around Addingham is known as Upper Wharfedale and has a very different character from the rest of the area.

* The £ 4m Addingham bypass opened in January 1991.

The building of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, the Blackburn to Addingham Turnpike road and the railway line from Preston to Colne led to the town of Brierfield developing during the early 19th century.

It encompasses the villages of Steeton in the south, Silsden in the centre and Addingham in the north.

Addingham ( formerly Haddincham c. 972, Odingehem 1086 ) is a village and civil parish in the English county of West Yorkshire.

It is home to an award-winning Medical Centre, a public park, five public houses, several retirement homes and a solitary school, Addingham Primary School.

The cloth making industry remained stagnant, however, until the 18th century, when revolutionary weaving inventions such as John Kay's Flying shuttle and, later, water-powered machines such as Crompton's Spinning mule, allowed the textile industry in Addingham to leap forward as it entered the 19th century.

Suspension Bridge crossing the River Wharfe near West Hall, Addingham.

The formation of a missionary society set the stage for further " co-operative " efforts.

Distributism therefore advocates a society marked by widespread property ownership and, according to co-operative economist Race Mathews, maintains that such a system is key to bringing about a just social order.

stands for Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota ( Slovene National Benefit Society ), a fraternal society and financial co-operative based in Imperial, Pennsylvania.

" This was to be affected by the establishment of " social workshops ", a sort of combined co-operative society and trade-union, where the workmen in each trade were to unite their efforts for their common benefit.

This society would be a co-operative union of free producers, who are both owners of the means of production and self-employed, i. e. with no intermediary between themselves and the society that consumes their labor.

When the socialist state ( the dictatorship of the proletariat ) naturally withers away, what will remain is a society in which human beings no longer suffer from alienation and " all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly.

In India, in some of the States they are registered as " co-operative housing society " rather than condominiums in that the owners actually have a share of the co-op and not the actual real estate itself.

* Co-operative Retail Services, a former co-operative society in the United Kingdom

Munn was on the Barnsley Regional Board of the Co-operative Group, the UK's largest co-operative society, and the management committee of Wortley Hall, a national co-operative conference centre.

In 1920 he was elected to Wigan Board of Guardians, in 1924 became president of a local co-operative society and in the same year a miner's agent for the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain.

The Dharavi co-operative housing society promoted 338 flats and 97 shops and was named " Dr. Baliga Nagar.

Most international transfers are executed through SWIFT, a co-operative society founded in 1974 by seven international banks, which operate a global network to facilitate the transfer of financial messages.

The store primarily caters to the requirements of the students. A co-operative store with students and staff as members is functioning in the campus. A co-operative thrift society is also functioning in the campus for the benefit of the faculty and staff members of the college.

Their first prospectus proclaimed: This press is a co-operative society for the printing and publishing of books.

Off the field, the remaining committee members set the club up as a co-operative society, selling shares to the ordinary supporters, to ensure that the club would be owned and run by the people who they felt would truly care about it.

* Northern Co-operative Society, a defunct Aberdeen, Scotland co-operative society

There is a local store which belongs to the co-operative society, as a branch of the Radstock district co-operative society.

A rule change opened membership to the general public and in August 1999, SETCO renamed itself The Phone Co-op and converted into a co-operative society incorporated under the Industrial & Provident Societies Acts.

The Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society ( Leeds Co-op ) was a British independent co-operative society based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, which merged with United Co-operatives in 2007.