Cullingworth is a village and civil parish in West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, between Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

 and Haworth

Haworth

Haworth is a rural village in the City of Bradford metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is located amongst the Pennines, southwest of Keighley and west of Bradford. The surrounding areas include Oakworth and Oxenhope...

. The village is well known locally for holding events such as the Brontë

Brontë

The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte , Emily , and Anne , are well-known as poets and novelists...

 Vintage Gathering every year and the Great Yorkshire Bike Show in 2005. The surrounding countryside is mainly used for sheep and cattle

Cattle

Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius...

 farming, with areas of moorland

Moorland

Moorland or moor is a type of habitat, in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome, found in upland areas, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils and heavy fog...

 located nearby as well. The village has seen some new development recently, such as a new primary school, housing estates and shops.

Governance

Cullingworth is a civil parish with a parish council. It is in the Bingley Rural

Bingley Rural

Bingley Rural is an electoral ward in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council.It encompasses the villages of Harden, Wilsden, Cottingley, Cullingworth and Denholme.- References :* * *...

 ward of the City of Bradford

City of Bradford

The City of Bradford is a local government district of West Yorkshire, England with the status of a city and metropolitan borough. It is named after its largest settlement, Bradford, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Keighley, Shipley, Bingley, Ilkley, Haworth, Silsden and...

 and the Shipley constituency

Shipley (UK Parliament constituency)

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 of the UK Parliament.

Education

The village is home to the Parkside Secondary School

Parkside secondary school

Parkside Secondary School is located in Cullingworth, Bradford, West Yorkshire, and employs about 50 teachers and educates approximately 1,200 students. Its headmaster is Dr. Tony Rickwood who has a doctorate in physics, and its deputy-head is Mr. Michael Smith.It is a specialist Arts College and...

, which was recently expanded in line with educational changes (the gradual demise of middle schools in favour of secondary schools which are combined middle and high schools), and now educates around 1200 pupils from the surrounding area.

Landmarks

Cullingworth also has a Methodist Church. There are two pubs: the Fleece, and the George. Old Spot Brewery, based in Cullingworth, is an award winning real-ale brewery.
Cullingworth once had a wool mill, owned by the Craven family. The mill lay derelict for some years after the wool milling industry collapsed, but it made national news when the mill caught fire. The lanolin

Lanolin

Lanolin , also called Adeps Lanae, wool wax or wool grease, is a yellow waxy substance secreted by the sebaceous glands of wool-bearing animals. Most lanolin used by humans comes from domestic sheep...

 in all of the timbers caused the mill fire to be very intense.

Sport

In 2007 The Cricket club had a highly successful season, with the first team winning the "Treble", 1st Division championship, and winning both the Keighley Cup and the league cup. In 2008 this was repeated with the 1st team retaining the League championship and cup and retaining the Keighley cup which had been revised to a 20/20 format.

Notable people

Cullingworth was once home to olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew

Duncan Goodhew

Duncan Alexander Goodhew MBE is a British swimming athlete. After swimming competitively in America as a collegian at North Carolina State University, he was an Olympic swimmer for Great Britain and won Olympic gold and bronze medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-Biography:Goodhew...

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Cullingworth is home to Robin Luscombe (Born 1961) multiple motorcycle sidecar trials champion.