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Longroyd Bridge is a suburb approximately 1200 yds (1.1 km) to the southwest of Huddersfield town centre, West Yorkshire, England. The area is composed of industrial and commercial units. There is little housing in the commercial area, though within a few hundred yards are the housing areas of Thornton Lodge and Paddock.
Huddersfield Town played their final match at Leeds Road on 30 April 1994, beating Blackpool 2–1, which was watched by a near capacity crowd of 16,195. [52] They moved into the new Kirklees Stadium (then named as the Alfred McAlpine Stadium) for the 1994–95 season. [ 53 ]
These include the Mirfield-born actor ("life-long" Huddersfield Town F.C. supporter [73] and Chancellor of Huddersfield University from 2004 to 2015 [74] [75]), Patrick Stewart; the dancer, entertainer and TV presenter Roy Castle, who was born in Scholes; [76] [77] the York-born Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer, Anita Lonsbrough; [78] [79 ...
Marsden Cuckoo Day, a day-long festival held annually in Spring (April), holds clog dancing, a duck race, music, a procession and a "cuckoo walk". The Marsden Jazz Festival [ 22 ] is held every October, and the winter Imbolc Festival, in which the 'triumph of the Green Man ' (who represents the coming spring), over Jack Frost (the winter) is ...
Fartown is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England that starts 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the town centre. Fartown runs for approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) either side of the A641 main Huddersfield to Bradford Road. The district area stretches from the top of Woodhouse Hill to the Halifax Old Road with a population of 4,735 according ...
The Tolson Memorial Museum, also known as Tolson Museum, is housed in Ravensknowle Hall, a Victorian mansion in Ravensknowle Park on Wakefield Road in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The museum was given to the town by Legh Tolson in memory of his two nephews who were killed in the First World War .
View of Netherton and South Crosland from Castle Hill, Huddersfield. Netherton is a village, near Huddersfield, in the Kirklees metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is 2 miles (3 km) south-west of the town centre on the road to Meltham. Netherton together with South Crosland have a population of 3,702 according to the 2001 census.
Kirkburton is a village, civil parish and ward in Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.It is 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Huddersfield. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the township comprised the villages of Kirkburton and Highburton and several hamlets, including Thunder Bridge, Thorncliffe, Storthes Hall and Linfit.