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The priory dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St James was founded by Reiner le Fleming, Lord of the manor of Wath upon Dearne, in 1155 during the reign of Henry II. [ 1 ] The priory gives its name to the Kirklees metropolitan district council, formed in 1974 and including the towns of Huddersfield , Dewsbury and Batley , though the priory is ...
Although the inscription is probably a forgery, there may have been a grave marker on this site as early as the 16th century. John Leland, in his Collectanea (compiled in the 1530s), mentions the tradition that Robin Hood is buried near Kirklees Priory, [8] but the earliest definite reference to the presence of a gravestone is found in Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large (1569).
The priory was located within the present-day Kirklees Park estate, most of which actually lies in the neighbouring borough of Calderdale. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Under the original draft of the Act, the district would have included Ossett , part of the Dewsbury Parliamentary constituency at that time.
Kirklees Hall is a 16th-century Grade I listed [1] Jacobean hall, close to the English village of Clifton in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. The first evidence of a hall constructed at Kirklees was that of Sir Thomas Gargrave , who conveyed the property to the Pilkington family.
Historic England, "Kirklees Priory Gatehouse, Brighouse (1314039)", National Heritage List for England Historic England, "Walls which enclose former Orchard for Kirklees Priory 80 metres East of Priory Gatehouse, Brighouse (1300282)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 9 April 2020
The following is a list of the monastic houses in West Yorkshire, England.. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller).
Cleckheaton is a town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated south of Bradford, [2] east of Brighouse, west of Batley and south-west of Leeds. It is at the centre of the Spen Valley and was the major town in the former borough of Spenborough.
The Armytage Baronetcy, of Kirklees in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 4 July 1738 [1] for Samuel Armytage, high sheriff of Yorkshire in 1739. He was the great-grandson of Edward Armytage, younger brother of John Armytage, father of the first Baronet of the 1641 creation.