Editing Cleckheaton (section)

===Industrial Revolution===
[[File:Prospect Mills Cleckheaton.jpg|thumb|right|Prospect Mills in Prospect Road]]
In 1804 the Reverend Hammond Roberson, annoyed that the administration of Liversedge was disorganised, promoted a system of reform (the [[Select vestries|select vestry]]) which quickly spread to Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike. In 1810, after his wife's death, Roberson turned his attention to church building in the area. In 1818 Parliament voted £1 million for the building of new churches in the country, and Roberson was able to secure funding to build Cleckheaton Church: [[William Swinden Barber#Church of St John the Evangelist, Cleckheaton, 1886|St John the Evangelist]] in Church Street.<ref>{{cite book|last=Port |first=M. H. |title=Six Hundred New Churches. A study of the Church Building Commission, 1816–1856 |publisher= Spire Books |year=2006}}</ref>