Shipley, Bradford, W Yorkshire - Lower Wood, Shipley Glen - postcard c.1916

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• Picture / Image:  Shipley Glen - The Lower Wood [Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire]
• Publisher:  R. B. Series No. 157
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George V half d. green
• Postmark(s):  Bradford May 9 [looks like 1916]
• Sent to:  Miss E. Sharley, Victoria Road, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Notts.
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Shipley (/ˈʃɪpli/ ship-lee) is a town and commuter-suburb in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, north of Bradford.

It is within the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford and before 1974 was an urban district in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The town forms a continuous urban area with Bradford. It has a population of approximately 28,162.^[

Shipley is located at an important crossing of the River Aire, where the route from Otley to Bradford crosses the route from Skipton to Leeds. It is sheltered by the millstone crags of Wroseand Windhill to the east, and to the north by Baildon and Hawksworth Moors.^[28]

Development in Shipley grew upwards and outwards from the crossroads at Fox's Corner, named after the Fox and Hounds public house that once stood there.^[29][30] In medieval times, Shipley consisted of the settlement around the crossroads, and the unenclosed fields at Shipley Fields and the Hirst which were collectively farmed. Beyond these lay the Low Moor, which ran from the Crowghyll to the former Saltaire roundabout (now a junction on the Bradford to Keighley road), and the High Moor (from Saltaire roundabout, through Moorhead, as far as New Brighton and Noon Nick). These areas were steep, rocky land, unsuitable for farming.^[31] The town was bounded to the north by the River Aire, to the east by Bradford Beck, with Cottingleyand Heaton lying beyond its western and southern boundaries.^[4]

Outlying districts, such as Windhill, were not part of Shipley until the 19th century. Saltaire became part of Shipley after its foundation in the 1860s, while Windhill, which had previously been part of Idle, became part of the Shipley Urban District in 1894.^[8]