page_title: Little Horton
section_title: Pre-industrial Little Horton
hierarchical_section_title: Little Horton / Pre-industrial Little Horton
caption_attribution_description: English: All Saints' parish church, Little Horton Green, Bradford, West Yorkshire, seen from the southwest
context_page_description: Little Horton is a ward in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the de Horton family, who were once Lords of the Manor. The population at the 2011 Census was 21,547.
  As well as the area of Little Horton, the electoral ward includes the area of West Bowling, Marshfields and the Canterbury housing estate.
context_section_description: In the area known as ‘Little Horton Green’ there are still a number of farmhouses and out buildings, indicating that this was once a farming district.
  Typical three story weavers' cottages may be seen opposite the farms. These were used initially to weave not wool, but cotton, by a man called Samuel Swaine in the 18th century. The house and barn, with the date stone 1755, were used for the manufacture and sale of cotton by a Mr Kay in the late 18th and very early 19th century.
  In the pre-industrial age, each manor had a poorhouse where the destitute could go for poor relief. The poorhouse at Little Horton was one of the first buildings in the area and can still be seen today. It is now a house and was replaced by the much larger Bradford Workhouse (now St Luke’s Hospital) in 1855.
  There were two manor houses in Little Horton, Horton Old Hall and Horton Hall. The two halls existed, because the Sharp family who had ownership of Little Horton for many years, were on different sides during the English Civil War (1642–1655) and as a result erected a second major dwelling in the area, divided from the ‘Old Hall’ by a huge wall.
  In the early 20th century Horton Hall was used as the residence of the Bishop of Bradford. Both halls were situated opposite All Saints' Church and were demolished among much public outcry in the 1960s.
  All Saints’ Church was built in 1864, by the local landowner and MP Sir Francis Sharp-Powell, who once lived in Horton Hall.
  Prior to the 19th century Little Horton was still a very rural area and a place where wealthy merchants and entrepreneurs chose to live to escape the increasing industrialisation of the city centre. However, by the end of the 19th century most of the fields had disappeared and the area was surrounded by row upon row of back to back terrace housing, for the people who flocked to Bradford to work in the manufacturing industries.
caption: All Saints' Church
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