 In 1644, during the English Civil War, the village was the scene of an altercation in which five people, probably Roundhead supporters, were killed by King Charles I's troops.By the 1700s, the people of Haggate worked mostly as farmers and were major producers of wool.There was also a coal mine, which remained open until the middle of the 20th century, that supplied coal to the mills of Harle Syke and Briercliffe.