Frizinghall

{{Short description|District of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England}}

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Frizinghall is a district in the Heaton ward of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire,{{cite map|url=http://observatory.bradford.gov.uk/resource/view?resourceId=3880|title=BMDC Heaton Ward Polling Districts|publisher = Bradford District Council|date=October 2005}} lying {{convert|3|km|0|order=flip}} north of the city centre close to the town of Shipley,{{cite map|title =Bradford & Huddersfield |map =288 |year =2015 |scale =1:25,000 |series =Explorer |publisher =Ordnance Survey |isbn = 9780319244852 }} itself a part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District along with such other nearby towns as Keighley and Ilkley.{{cite news|last1=Shand|first1=Alistair|title=Renewed calls for Keighley and Shipley to break away from Bradford Council control|url=http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/15152533.Renewed_calls_for_Keighley_and_Shipley_to_break_away_from_Bradford_Council_control/|access-date=17 November 2017|work=Keighley News|date=13 March 2017}}

Frizinghall derives its name from a type of rough woollen cloth made in the area (frieze), and the hall was somewhere in the settlement (ing) where the frieze was made.{{cite book|last1=Cudworth|first1=William|title=Manningham, Heaton and Merton (Townships of Bradford) Treated historically and topographically|date=1896|publisher=Cudworth|location=Bradford|pages=261–262|oclc=499689891}} Others believe the name comes from Old English; The Frisian's nook of land (Frisian being a personal name){{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=A H |title=The place names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Part 3, Morley Wapentake |date=1961 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |page=245|oclc=1052822972}} or from Furze-covered Haugh (haugh being an enclosure).{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-869103-3 |pages=188, 225 |edition=4}}

Frizinghall is notable as the birthplace of famous cricketer (and later commentator) Jim Laker.{{cite news|last1=Wheeler|first1=Sam|title=The day Laker turned Ashes into one-man show|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/cricket/the-day-laker-turned-ashes-into-one-man-show-1-2381140|access-date=17 November 2017|work=The Yorkshire Post|date=29 July 2006}}

Frizinghall railway station is on the Airedale line which has frequent services to {{stnlnk|Bradford Forster Square}}, {{stnlnk|Leeds}}, {{stnlnk|Shipley}}, {{stnlnk|Ilkley}}, {{stnlnk|Keighley}} and {{stnlnk|Skipton}}.{{cite news|last1=Kilner|first1=Will|title=Study highlights new rail stations success|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/5198584.Study_highlights_new_rail_stations_success/|access-date=17 November 2017|work=Bradford Telegraph and Argus|date=29 March 2010}}

The fictitious town of Frizinghall in Wilkie Collins' book The Moonstone is near the Yorkshire coast.{{cite web|title=The Moonstone|url=http://www.wilkie-collins.info/books_moonstone.htm|website=www.wilkie-collins.info|access-date=17 November 2017}}