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Probable derivation
of “Winkholm” – whin =
gorse or furze
Holm = low lying or
rising ground near
stream
How-gate seems correct
rendering. Appears on
old plan of 1787.
“Gate” suggests a toll
bar. Cf. Free-gate, i.e.
road without toll-bar.
Before New Road was
made, road up Winkholm,
and by Farling Top was
the route from Cowling
Hill side to the old
Keighley to Colne
Highway.
Howgate Bridge was in
existence in 1787.
Water from both becks
used by Ickornshaw Mill.
Dam built in course of
Summerhouse Beck in
1820, byJohn Halstead (Ickornshaw
Mill), James Wilson (Lumb
Mill), Peter & George
Hartley (Glusburn), &
John Bairstow (corn
dealer) of Steeton.
Ickornshaw Dam burst in
1849.
ICKORNSHAW MILL first
built as candle-wick
factory by the Vicar of
Kildwick it is said. In
1818 it was owned by
John Halstead of Colne,
who ran it as a weaving
shed. By 1846 Halstead
had let the mill to
William & Robert Watson
who used it as a weaving
shop (water power).
COTTAGES: Thomas Binns
owned 14 cottages in
Winkholm in 1818 and in
1846 they were
back-to-back houses.
N.B. Thomas Binns owned
Beckside 2r.32p. in 1818
& 1846 (nos. 579 & 580)
Five cottages at the
Mill are recorded in
1830. They were in the
block on opposite side
of road from Mill.
James Watson owned a
house at Cock Hall in
1826. William Watson was
the tenant of Winter
House in 1846. The house
of James Watson is
probably the one at W.
end of Providence on
plan. This house is our
former N.E. Farm.
N.E. FARM: In 1818,
owned by Williamson &
Corlay (N.B. new road).
By about 1823 it was
owned and farmed by
William Watson who had
succeeded James at the
Bay Horse.
In 1846 William had sold
the Inn and the farm to
the Crossleys who owned
about 8 cottages in
Freegate. Robert Laycock
became tenant of Inn and
the farm.
Farm 9a . 1r. 34p. (Nos.
576, 578, 548, 547 &
546), 578? On plan.
No. 577 is blocked in,
in error, building land
owned by Wm. Smith jnr.
(Willie O’ Pott’s son)
21per. (E. end of
Providence). Square
black to E. of
Ickornshaw Mill should
represent vacant land.
Note: Thomas Binns had
the cottages in Winkholm
built. |
