Editing Keighley (section)

== Geography ==
<gallery>File:Cavendish Street, Keighley.jpg|Victorian era terraced buildings on Cavendish Street
File:Victorian Terraces of Keighley.jpg|A ground-level view of the Victorian commercial quarter
File:Keighley070805.jpg|North Street
File:Keighley railway station (geograph 7027473).jpg|[[Keighley railway station]]</gallery>
Keighley lies at the [[confluence]] of the rivers [[River Worth|Worth]] and [[River Aire|Aire]] in [[Airedale]], in the [[South Pennines]]. It benefits from an [[Railway electrification system|electrified railway]] service with connections to [[Leeds]], [[Bradford]], [[Shipley, West Yorkshire|Shipley]], [[Bingley]], [[Skipton]], [[Carlisle]] and [[Morecambe]].

The [[post town]] of Keighley's northern boundary is with [[Bradley, North Yorkshire|Bradley]] and its southern limit is the edge of [[Oxenhope]]. To the west, the town advances up the hill to the suburb of Black Hill, and in the east it terminates at the residential neighbourhoods of [[Long Lee]] and Thwaites Brow. The outlying north-eastern suburb of [[Riddlesden]] is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a separate village but is part of the town.

Past Black Hill and via Braithwaite Edge Road lies Braithwaite village, which leads to [[Laycock, West Yorkshire|Laycock]], which was also mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]]. Laycock is a conservation area which overlooks the hamlet of Goose Eye.

The [[River Aire]] passes through north-eastern Keighley, dividing the neighbourhood of Stockbridge and running roughly parallel to the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]]. The Worth links up with the Aire in Stockbridge and runs south-westerly, dividing eastern Keighley from central and western districts of the town. The Worth is lined with abandoned, semi-derelict industrial sites and tracts of waste ground dating from the period when Keighley thrived as a major textile centre.

Parts of Keighley are prone to flooding, and the town was particularly badly hit by floods in 2000.<ref>{{cite news |date=3 November 2000 |title=Flood: Hundreds Homeless as Floods Hit |work=[[Telegraph & Argus]] |url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8049696.Flood__Hundreds_homeless_as_floods_hit/ |access-date=7 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=1 November 2000 |title=Floods Could Cost Millions |work=[[Keighley News]] |url=http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/8049840.Floods_could_cost_millions/ |access-date=7 December 2017}}</ref> Since then, millions have been spent on strengthening flood defences.

Other outlying villages around the town are [[Oakworth]], [[Cross Roads, West Yorkshire|Cross Roads]], [[Haworth]], [[Stanbury]] and [[Oxenhope]]. The two main settlements to the north are [[Silsden]] and [[Steeton, West Yorkshire|Steeton]]. Although these villages are often referred to as separate places, they are part of the wider Keighley area. These areas add a total of 22,669 people to the Keighley area, taking the population of the wider Keighley area up to 74,098 ([[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]]).

To the north-east is [[Rombalds Moor]], which contains many signs of [[Stone Age]] and [[Bronze Age]] occupation, including [[cup and ring mark]]s;<ref>{{cite web |title=Rombald's Moor Stone Circles |url=http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/rombaldsmoor.htm |access-date=24 January 2009}}</ref> as it drops back down into [[Wharfedale]] and the town of [[Ilkley]], approximately five miles away, it becomes the more famous [[Ilkley Moor]].

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|title     = '''Neighbouring towns, villages and places'''
|Northwest = [[Skipton]], [[Gargrave]], ''[[Yorkshire Dales]]''
|North     = [[Steeton (village)|Steeton]], [[Silsden]], [[Addingham]]
|Northeast = [[Ilkley]], [[Burley-in-Wharfedale]]
|West      = [[Colne]], [[Nelson, Lancashire|Nelson]], [[Burnley]]
|Centre    = Keighley
|East      = [[Menston]], [[Guiseley]], [[Yeadon, West Yorkshire|Yeadon]]
|Southwest = [[Oakworth]], [[Haworth]], [[Oxenhope]]
|South     = [[Cullingworth]], [[Denholme]], [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]]
|Southeast = [[Bingley]], [[Shipley, West Yorkshire|Shipley]], [[Bradford]]
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