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Drighlington is a small village 5 miles south west of Leeds and 4 milessouth east of Bradford.
The village is at the junction of the A58 Leeds-Halifax road and the B6135 Tong to Gildersome Street road which used to be part of the A650 Bradford to Wakefield road. The junction is known as the Drighlington Crossroads. The A650 now the bypasses Drighlington to the west of the village.
The earliest mention of Drighlington is to be found in the Domesday Book where it is described as “Dreslin(g)tone", and its modern name is derived from this root. The old Roman road from York to Chester ran through the village.
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