Guiseley is a small town in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, England. It is situated next to Otley and Menston and the A65 runs straight through the town's main shopping street. It has a train station - called Guiseley.

How did Guiseley get its name?

After the collapse of Roman rule here in the fourth century, wave after wave of Germanic invaders made their way up the river valleys. They were led by petty chieftains who selected promising locations for settlement. These new comers associated Roman culture in general, and city life in particular, with decadance. They took pride in a hard life. To pursue manliness they cleared areas of forest, lived in wooden huts, kept sheep and cattle, ploughed the soil, planted grain crops and and hunted. These forest clearings were called "leahs" and the word still survives as a suffix to many local places including Otley, Ilkley, Burley and Shipley.

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