Cleckheaton

Cleckheaton is a former mill town in the middle of the Spen Valley, south of Bradford.

There is an annual Cleckheaton Folk Festival. The 2012 festival will be held the 6th, 7th and 8th of July.

Accommodation

Born in Cleckheaton

Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949) - Vorticist painter.

Roger Hargreaves (1935-1988) - author and illustrator of children's books.

Useful and informative links

Cleckheaton photographs from Geograph

Wikipedia article on Cleckheaton