English Explanatory Dictionary

Keighley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0641).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Pronunciation

/ˈkiːθli/ En-uk-Keighley.ogg

Word forms

Keighley Keighleys Keathley Keatley Keithley Keithly Kightley Kightly

Etymology

Recorded as Middle English Chichelai in the Domesday Book, the town is named with the Old English personal name *Cyhha + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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