Looking west up Emm Lane from the A650 (Keighley Road)
Frizinghall is a district in the Heaton ward of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire,[1] lying 2 miles (3km) north of the city centre close to the town of Shipley,[2] itself a part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District along with such other nearby towns as Keighley and Ilkley.[3]
Frizinghall derives its name from a type of rough woollen cloth made in the area (frieze), and the hall was somewhere in the settlement (ing) where the frieze was made.[4] Others believe the name comes from Old English; The Frisian's nook of land (Frisian being a personal name)[5] or from Furze-covered Haugh (haugh being an enclosure).[6]
↑Cudworth, William (1896). Manningham, Heaton and Merton (Townships of Bradford) Treated historically and topographically. Bradford: Cudworth. pp.261–262. OCLC499689891.
↑Smith, A H (1961). The place names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Part 3, Morley Wapentake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.245. OCLC1052822972.
↑Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.188, 225. OCLC1228215388.
