Editing Shipley, West Yorkshire (section)

===Early history===

Shipley appears to have first been settled in the late [[Bronze Age]]{{sfn|Burrows|p=1}} and is mentioned in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' of 1086, in the form {{lang|ang|Scipelei(a)}}.<ref name="CamDict" />

Its early history relies on the records of a succession of [[Lord of the Manor|Lords of the Manor]], not all of whom were in permanent residence. The rolls of the [[manor court]] have been missing since the 18th&nbsp;century,{{sfn|Sheeran|1984|p=5}} leaving the records incomplete. In the 12th&nbsp;century, 'Adam, son of Peter', an early Lord of the Manor, granted [[grazing]] and [[iron ore]] mining rights to the monks of [[Rievaulx Abbey]].{{sfn|Sheeran|1984|p=5}}  Through the [[Middle Ages]] the Lords were the 'Earls of Ormande' (sic), possibly the Irish [[Earl of Ormond (Ireland)|Earls of Ormond]], followed by the [[William Gascoigne|Gascoigne family]]. In 1495, Rosamund Gascoigne, a daughter of one of the William Gascoignes who held the title, married Robert Rawson, thought to be related to the Rawson family of [[Bradford]], after whom one of the city's markets is named. Their son, William, married a cousin, Agnes Gascoigne, and through the marriage the Rawson family inherited the manor in 1570.{{sfn|Sheeran|1984|pp=5–7}}

The Rawsons lived at Over Hall known as the Manor House, on the site of the current [[Shipley Town Hall|town hall]]. The manor estates extended to Northcliff,{{sfn|Sheeran|1984|p=12}} to the south of Shipley. The family had interests in [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]] and moved there in the early 18th&nbsp;century, retaining their Shipley estates until the last male heir died in 1745.{{sfn|Sheeran|1984|p=8}}

By the 19th&nbsp;century the Rawson estates and those of the Fields, another prominent land-owning family, had become the property of the [[Earl of Rosse]]{{sfn|Sheeran|1984|p=37}} who had extensive holdings in [[Heaton, West Yorkshire|Heaton]]. His legacy has endured in the name of a public house on the main Bradford to Keighley road, and Rossefield School in Heaton. Of the lower orders at this time not much is known, but there was relief housing offered at the town's expense near Crowghyll.{{sfn|Sheeran|1984|p=10}}