Facts about Cleckheaton
1086 Cleckheaton mentioned in Domesday Book
1130-50 Whitechapel built
1710 First Independent (Congregationalist) Chapel,Red Chapel, built on Bradford Road.
1741 Leeds - Elland Turnpike Trust formed.
1757 John Wesley preached in Cleckheaton.
1795 Enclosure of Cleckheaton open fields.
1800 St. Peg Mill built.
1802 Act for enclosing Cleckheaton Common passed.
1806 Millbridge - Cleckheaton Turnpike completed.
1830-2 Building of St. Johns Church.
1835 Town School erected.
1848 Cleckheaton Central Railway Line completed.
1850 Samuel Laws Card Clothing Firm established.
1861 Co-operative Society formed.
1863 Cleckheaton Board of Health took over the running of the town.
1867 Market opened.
1869 Private Gas Works purchased by Board of Health.
1878 Chamber of Commerce founded.
1879 Central Methodist Chapel opened.
1880 Public Baths completed.
1889 St. Lukes consecrated.
1892 Town Hall completed.
1892 15 killed in fall of mill chimney at Rawfolds.
1894 Cleckheaton becomes Urban District Council
1900 Spen Railway line commenced operations.
1901 British Belting and Asbestos moved to the town.
1908 Opening of Whitcliffe Mount School.
1915 Formation qfSpenborough U. D. C.
1930 Spenborough Public Library opened.
1953 Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour built.
1953 Spen railway line closed to passenger travel.
1955 Creation of Municipal Borough of Spenborough.
1965 Princess Mary playing fields opened.
1965 Cleckheaton central railway line closed.
1974 Spenborough becomes part of Kirklees.