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Main Street

Main Street is the old A65 Ilkley to Skipton road (before the village by-pass was opened in 1990) and runs east from the junction with Silsden Road and Skipton Road near the Craven Hiefer down to opposite the Cricket Ground where it becomes Ilkley Road.

The route of the road through Addingham from Ilkley to Skipton has been changed several times over the years. The earliest route was alongside the river from Ilkley (more or less the present Dalesway footpath) to Low Mill Lane, then along Church Street, Main Street, Moor Lane and along this high level route to Skipton.

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From the top of Main Street, notable features are:-

The Craven Heifer public house Over 200 years old, The Craven Heifer is named after the champion heifer, reputed to be the largest ever bred, by the Reverend William Carr, Rector of the parish of Bolton Abbey, a neighbouring district of Craven, in 1807.
Craven Heifer1900s		Craven Hiefer 2009
Craven Hiefer 1900s		Craven Heifer 2009
The Townhead Industrial Estate (on the site of Townhead textile Mill) Townhead Mill was built by Ambrose Dean about 1797 powered by water from Town Beck although he later bought a Boulton & Watt steam engine to supplement the water wheel. Initially a cotton spinning mill Dean was described as a calico manufacturer in 1811 and the mill as a sawmill in 1850. The mill was destroyed by fire in the 1960s and the site is now light industrial units.
Townhead Mill 1950s		Townhead Trading Estate 2003
Townhead Mill (1950s) behind mill worker.		Townhead Industrial Estate 2009 (Craven Heifer far right)
Upper Main Street down to The Sailor
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Upper Main Street in the 1930s. The houses on the left are 30-44 Main Street and there used to be cottages and Union Yard behind them. The rectangular building centre was known as Caravan Cottage but was demolished in the 1960s to allow the road to be straightened. The site is now The Sailor's front car park.

, The Sailor pub, the so-called Piece Hall (now residential but previously a butcher's shop and possibly built for the trading of textile 'pieces'), Beckside Place (on the site of Walton's Mill), Burnside Mill (now residential), Chapel Street on the left before a row of shops, The Swan pub on the left beside The Old School (now Public Library with Council Room above), Sugar Hill Green (formerly the site of the railway bridge), Old Station Way on the right, The Crown pub beside the Bolton Road junction), Mount Hermon Chapel, The Fleece pub on the left with The Memorial Hall and Medical Centre opposite, High House with High House Mews behind, Saw Mill Lane leading to the old Saw Mill (now residential) and finally the junctions with Church Street and Ilkley Road.

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