In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cononley like this:
CONONLEY, a township in Kildwick parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and the North Midland railway, 3 miles S by E of Skipton. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leeds; and it forms a curacy with Kildwick. Acres, 1, 431. Pop., 905. Houses, 220. A number of the inhabitants are employed in worsted mills.
Cononley through time
Cononley is now part of Craven district. Click here for graphs and data of how Craven has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cononley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cononley, in Craven and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12195
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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