Uncra Cottage - Marley

[Admin]

Posted by Jan from an e-mail from Malcolm Hitt.

We are trying to find the route of the Roman road through Cullingworth to Ilkley, we have found a reference to Uncra cottage being somewhere around Marley as being on the route of the road.


Does anyone know the location of Uncra Cottage

[Mike Tebb]

Uncra seems to have been a couple of cottages off the end of the old Marley Road. I reckon they stood just about where the two grey tank are in the top corner of the sewage works on this aerial picture.

maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=keighley&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=7.866934,18.28125&ie=UTF8&ll=53.86899,-1.87216&spn=0.003834,0.01708&t=h&z=16

So does that mean the Romans built the Aire Valley Trunk Road long before we did???

[Andy Wade]

Jun 7, 2009 11:51:46 GMT Mike Tebb said:

Uncra seems to have been a couple of cottages off the end of the old Marley Road. I reckon they stood just about where the two grey tank are in the top corner of the sewage works on this aerial picture.

maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=keighley&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=7.866934,18.28125&ie=UTF8&ll=53.86899,-1.87216&spn=0.003834,0.01708&t=h&z=16

So does that mean the Romans built the Aire Valley Trunk Road long before we did???

It wasn't until started looking along the length of the Aire Valley that I noticed at least three or four ox-bow lakes along the length of the river from Steeton to Bingley

[Andy Wade]

Yes, that's what ox-bow lakes are, a remnant of the old course of the river.
As the river creates a bend through natural erosion, the slower moving water on the inside of the bend silts up and on the outside of the bend the faster running water erodes the bank. Eventually you end up with a large loop which can eventually meet up through the continued proces of erosion and silting and the river then breaks through. Further silting results in the loop becoming separated from the main river and you get an ox-bow lake, which eventually dries up.
There's a distinct remnant of one opposite the grass maze at East Riddlesden Hall, on the Marley Fields side of the river and another one about 600 metres due North of the Utley Roundabout, this one is easier to spot if you select 'Terrain' view as it still contains water.

I'd be very interested in finding out where that old bridge is though. I love owt like that.

Edited to add map link:
Start here with Google maps

[Andy Wade]

You could be right. That got me thinking and I looked here:


archive.org - Ancient Bingley

In that very long text version of the original document I found this:
Cottingley bridge.
Bingley bridge. Marley bridge. Gilbeck bridge. Stock
bridge. Beckfoot bridge.

So there was a Marley bridge, we just don't know exactly where it was.


Yet.

[lawkholmelaner]

Haven't had time to read all this interesting detail yet, but in case I don't come this way for a while, my wife's great,great grandparents lived at Unkerah from around 1750 - having descended there from points around Barlick and Kildwick - to be recorded as handloom weavers - and later mechanics (we know as employees at Prinnies Burlington Shed) having made their way up from Marley via Dalton Lane?

[Admin]

Vale this is what it is all about............NOT just for the person with the query.............BUT we have all forgotten more than we remember, or at least I have - which is very sad................Keep it coming, you are a star *************