Editing Keighley (section)

=== Town charter ===
Henry de Keighley, a [[Lancashire]] [[knight]], was granted a charter to hold a market in Keighley on 17 October 1305 by [[Edward I of England|King Edward I]].<ref name="marketcharter">{{cite news |date=15 January 2009 |title=Latin Expert Sought to Decipher Charter |work=[[Keighley News]] |url=http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/news_keighley/4047619.Latin_expert_sought__to_decipher_charter/ |access-date=24 January 2009}}</ref> The [[Tax per head|poll tax]] records of 1379 show that the population of Keighley, in the [[wapentake]] of [[Staincliffe (wapentake)|Staincliffe]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], was 109 people (47 couples and 15 single people).<ref>{{cite web |title=1379 Yorkshire Poll Tax Subsidy Rolls |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Keighley/KeighleySubsidyRoll |access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref>