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Slaithwaite (/ ˈ s l æ θ. w eɪ t / SLATH-wayt, ; Old Norse for "timber-fell thwaite/clearing") [1] is a town in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire , it is in the Colne Valley and on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal , 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Huddersfield .
Slaithwaite railway station serves the town of Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England. The station is 4 miles (6 km) west of Huddersfield railway station on the Huddersfield Line between Huddersfield and Manchester Victoria. The station is situated between the centre of the town and the "Hill Top" residential area.
Colne Valley is an unparished area in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Colne Valley ward contains over 480 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, twelve are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. This list contains the listed buildings in the central ...
The borough comprises the ten towns of Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite. It is governed by Kirklees Council. Kirklees had a population of 422,500 in 2011; it is the third-largest metropolitan district in England by area, behind Doncaster and Leeds. [2]
Colne Valley was an urban district of the West Riding of Yorkshire between 1937 and 1974. It was created by the merger of Golcar, Linthwaite, Marsden, Scammonden and Slaithwaite urban districts, and had a population of about 20,000.
23 Slaithwaite (Colne Valley) 24 Soothill (Batley; ... England. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
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In between Marsden and Huddersfield, the former mill town of Slaithwaite was named the best place to live in Yorkshire by The Times in 2022. [2] These areas are growing commuter areas with regular rail connections to both Manchester and Leeds.