It has been suggested in some quarters that the rocky outcrop, which is supposedly the place from where Carlinghow derives its name, known locally as "The Outies", was in ancient times a Druidic settlement, encompassing a sacred oak grove.

Oak trees are still plentiful along the banks of the hillside, as are holly bushes, which were also sacred to the Drudic Bards of Iron Age Celtic Britain.

Nearby waterway the Batley Beck, a tributary of the River Calder runs through Carlinghow, winding parallel along the course Bradford Road.

[3][4] In the area around Summerbridge Close was once Carlinghow Old Hall, an Elizabethan Manor House, a timber-framed building reputed to have been the home of the Eland family in the later Middle Ages.

The ground floor stone walling was an original feature of the building (there were no peg holes or mortices to show that it replaced earlier timbering), though the windows in it were timber-mullioned.