BUILDERS have won their bid to call a development of seven new homes and a masonic hall in Barnoldswick after the Victorian vicarage that originally stood on the site.
The development, off Skipton Road, which is still under construction, will be called ‘Kirklands’ after the vicarage that later became a doctors surgery and finally a masonic hall before being demolished last year to make way for the new development.
Some Barnoldswick councillors wanted to name the development after the Rev Richard Milner, who was the vicar of the town from 1836 until his death in 1870 and who lived in the ‘old vicarage’; but the developers opposed the choice because of the shared name with former Barnoldswick councillor, Richard Milner, who was convicted of fraud in 2016.