Carlinghow


Carlinghow is a district of Batley, West Yorkshire, England.
It is west of Batley town centre, and stretches up towards White Lee and Birstall, along Carlinghow Lane and Bradford Road.
The name means "the hill or burial mound of the "Witch", or "Hag"", as in an old woman, probably a soothsayer. A 'Carle' in Scots is a commoner, a husband or in a derogatory sense, a churl or male of low birth. The name 'Carline', 'Cairlin', Carlin, 'Cyarlin', 'Kerlin' or 'Kerl' was also used in Lowland Scots as a derogatory term for an old woman, meaning an 'old hag'. It is a corruption or equivalent of the Gaelic word "Cailleach", meaning a witch or the 'old Hag', the Goddess of Winter. at first-floor level.
The ground floor stone walling was an original feature of the building, though the windows in it were timber-mullioned. The first-floor windows projected from the walls.
A drawing of the Hall, published in Sheard's book in 1894, shows that the building was no more extensive at that date than it was in the 1960s, but what survived then was presumably only the 'solar' wing of a once much bigger 'gentry house'.
Carlinghow Lane is a gradual hill.
Batley Community Fire Station was at Carlinghow, but this and Dewsbury Fire Station were closed in August 2015 when a combined fire station was opened up on Carlton Road in Dewsbury. The Wilton council estate and Wilton Park, locally known as Batley Park, are both in the area.