These days the village of Cottingley is part of the suburban sprawl between Shipley and Bingley but there has been a hamlet here for hundreds of years. In 1753 a toll bar was established on the main Bradford to Keighley Road near here (where travellers had to pay to use the road). In the 1860s the village consisted of 142 houses, five or six farms, a tannery and a mill. My photo shows old houses on Main Street, originally the village centre - although now the centre of the village is located in the more modern estate around Littlelands.
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