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The Bentley Family Name

This topographical surname refers to any of many places in England. The place name is from the Old English compound of Beonet, meaning “bent grass”, and leah “clearing”.

Early records locate a William de Benetlega in Derbyshire in 1176.
Updated January 2006
Author Richard Herbert Bentley
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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.

Visitors to this site are welcome to use any information that they find useful.

The facts and detail included in the reports were obtained from the various records available and I believe them to be reasonably correct. However, as researchers are no doubt aware, it is difficult to be absolutely accurate in assembling the data and anyone interested in the report should check the details and facts for themselves.

 

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