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Birstall is a market and mill town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of the Birstall and Birkenshaw ward, which had a population of 16,298 at the 2011 census. [ 3 ]
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 .
This is a list of cities, towns, villages and hamlets in the counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire Contents: A
The station was opened as Upper Birstall on 1 October 1900 by the London and North Western Railway. It had a passenger subway nearby coal sidings. The station's name was changed to Birstall Town on 8 July 1935. Although the station closed on 1 August 1953, [1] the railway still carried the Transpennine expresses until August 1965. Also, goods ...
Birstall may refer to: Birstall, Leicestershire , a large village and civil parish Birstall, West Yorkshire , a large village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees
The West Yorkshire Act 1980 (c. xiv) was passed to amend existing local acts of Parliament in the West Yorkshire area, and to confer specific powers on West Yorkshire County Council, as well as the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, Kirklees Council, Leeds City Council and Wakefield Council.
The population in the district is ethnically diverse. Many of the towns in the Spen Valley have few residents from non-white heritage backgrounds (Birstall, Birkenshaw, Cleckheaton, Liversedge and Gomersal, generally more suburban and Conservative areas, with the exception of Cleckheaton, which has Liberal Democrat councillors [citation needed]).
Birstall railway station served the town of Birstall, in the historic county of West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1852 to 1962 on the Birstall Branch line.