Eccleshill is an area, former village, and ward within the Bradford district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

[3] In 1274 ownership of lands passed to the Sheffields and in 1407 to the Bolling family of Calverley then the Scargills, Saviles, Wyatts, Zouches, Stanhopes, Hirds, and then to Jeremiah Rawson.

[3] The hall was demolished in 1878 and all that remains are parts of stone gateposts embedded in a roadside wall.

[6] On the opposite side of Norman Lane is Prospect Chapel burial ground, created in 1823.

[5][7] Construction of St. Lukes church was ordered by the Rev William Scoresby, Vicar of Bradford[3] and this was consecrated in 1848.

[4] The ecclesiastical parish of Eccleshill takes in Greengates, and Apperley Bridge south of the River Aire.

On the other side of Victoria Road from the Old Mill is a row of houses and street once known as Dobby Row - a dobby being a type of cloth, a type of loom or part of an early form of weaving loom taking its name from a corruption of the words 'draw boy' - a weaving assistant.

[13] In 1837, the Manor Pottery was established by Jeremiah Rawson, lord of the manor on a site east of the Undercliffe Road-Pullan Avenue junction using beds of shale, fireclay and coal at a deep quarry near Bolton Junction[3][8][15] at a site now partly occupied by Kents Fitness Gym.

[4][8][15][16] Although the product stood comparison with other local wares, the local market for pottery was eventually supplied by better and cheaper stoneware from Staffordshire, and by 1867 the pottery had been sold to William Woodhead and production switched over to house bricks, firebricks and sewer pipes.

[3][15][16] The kilns were shut down in the early 20th century, and in 1921 the chimney was demolished,[3][15] however the manor house still remains.

[3][17] There were numerous coal pits in what is now the Thorpe Edge and Ravenscliffe areas of the Eccleshill ward.

Unfortunately the digging of the coal pits caused many local water wells to run dry.

In 1928 Ralph Dickinson created the purpose-built 1,000 seat Palladium Cinema on Norman Lane, opened in 1929.

[19] Later the cinema changed ownership and in 1931 the new owner John Lambert altered the name to Regal.

Eccleshill is bounded in the east by Pudsey and Fagley Beck— flowing a short distance directly north under the name Carr Beck to meet the River Aire.

To the east across Fagley Beck is Pudsey in the City of Leeds and to the south-east Bradford Moor.

[28] Further east is Fagley Beck and the Leeds Country Way bridle path and the border with Pudsey.

[29] At the junction of Stony Lane and Victoria Road by the roadside was the 19th century lock-up and a public urinal, however these have been walled up for some considerable time.

The lock-up and urinal are now over-topped by a section of raised stone paved pavement with railings known as 'The Monkey Bridge'[3] overlooking a small triangular area of land at the road junction that was the site of the village stocks.

[30] South of Stony Lane is a grassed recreation ground or common with Village Green Status.

[3] Eccleshill War Memorial is on the northern side[31] and to the south of the Recreation Ground on Moorwell Place is a terrace of listed former weavers' houses[32] and a bowling green.

[34] To the east of Harrogate Road can be found the Eccleshill NHS Treatment Centre,[35] and playing fields.

[37] Eccleshill has four post offices, one on Harrogate Road, one in Fagley and others in Ravenscliffe and Thorpe Edge.

[2] Eccleshill electoral ward is represented on Bradford Council by three Liberal Democrat councillors, Geoff Reid, Nicola Pollard and Brendan Stubbs.

A Lidl supermarket and Starbucks have been built on an as yet unfinished retail park on the now demolished Union Mills/Pilleys Mill site.

Eccleshill was the first township to elect a School Board in the land, following Edward Forsters Education Act of 1871.

Other local sports teams include Eccleshill Badminton Club[55] who use the facilities of Hanson School.

[58] TV presenter, journalist, and game show host Richard Whiteley (1943–2005) was born in Eccleshill into a family of mill owners, and lived there in his youth.

[11] The company was Thomas Whiteley & Co. (1889–1963) worsted manufacturers[11] based in mill premises off Stone Hall Road.

[59] Popular Victorian actress and 'postcard beauty' Marie Studholme (1872–1930) was born at Stone Hall, Eccleshill.