Steeton (in Domesday “stiveton”) with Eastburn is a township in the parish of Kildwick and a station on the Midland railway, situated 2 miles south-east from Kildwick, 3 miles north-west from Keighley, near the river Aire. This is a very ancient place, and long before the Conquest appears to have been in the possession of a Saxon named Stephen, who called the place after his own name; the place contains some good residences, and is partly lighted with gas, supplied by Messrs. John Dixon and sons. Here is a chapel of ease, served by the vicar of Kildwick or his curate; a new church has just been erected (1881) at an estimated cost of about £3,400. Here are also Primitive and Wesleyan Methodist chapels. The Public Library was incorporated with the Mechanics’ Institute in 1879. Steeton Hall, the residence of Mrs. Craven, is a handsome stone building, pleasantly situated in the valley of the Aire, and standing in a park of 50 acres, which contains some fine timber: a portion of the house is very ancient and is reputed to have been built before the Conquest, to which a chapelry was attached about the year 1300, in connection with Bolton Priory. Park house is the residence of Joseph Craven esq. J.P. There is an extensive worsted mill, belonging to Messrs. John Clough and sons, and also an important saw-mill and bobbin manufactory, worked by Messrs. John Dixon and sons, besides valuable quarries of sandstone grit. Steeton comprises Hawkclifie Wood, one of the most beautiful resorts in the Craven district. The trustees of the late Mrs. Garforth are lords of the manor; the land is subdivided. The area is 2,066 acres; rateable value, £7,894 8s. 10d.; and the population in 1871 was 1,631.