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The Electric Spring festival is an exploration of electronic and experimental music, featuring the 50-channel, 64-loudspeaker Huddersfield Immersive Sound System (HISS). The Mrs Sunderland Music festival is the second oldest in the United Kingdom, started in 1889 lasting for nine days each year.
Holmfirth (/ ˈ h oʊ m f ɜː θ /) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Huddersfield and 14 miles (23 km) west of Barnsley; the boundary of the Peak District National Park is 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south-west.
Thirty-two cities have a Lord Provost (in Scotland) or a Lord Mayor (in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland), see List of lord mayoralties and lord provostships in the United Kingdom. The six cities where the Lord Mayor or Lord Provost has the right to the style The Right Honourable are York, the City of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow (since 1912 ...
Map of the main settlements Leeds, the largest city in the built-up area (BUA) and the United Kingdom's third-largest city by population Bradford, the second largest city in the BUA and United Kingdom's sixth largest city by population Huddersfield, a market town with the third-highest population in the BUA and one of the largest market towns in UK Wakefield, the BUA's third city and ...
The HD postcode area, also known as the Huddersfield postcode area, [2] is a group of nine postcode districts in England, within three post towns. These cover southern West Yorkshire , including Huddersfield and Holmfirth in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees , and Brighouse in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale .
Before the M62 was built, the A62 was the main trans-Pennine road between Oldham and Huddersfield. The M62 is numbered after the A62 and now takes most of the long-distance traffic between Manchester and Leeds (2023 Average daily traffic figures: M62: 110,000 [ 2 ] A62: 5,885 [ 3 ] .)
The conurbation of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield makes up the West Yorkshire Built-up Area, which is the fourth-largest in the United Kingdom and the largest within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire. In Parliament, 13 out of 22 of West Yorkshire's MPs are Labour and 9 are Conservative. At local level ...
Lockwood is an area of Huddersfield, in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is 0.9 miles (1.4 km) to the southwest of Huddersfield Town Centre, to the west of the River Holme .