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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.
Colne (/ k ɒ l n / [2]) is a ... The town should not be confused with the unrelated Colne Valley around the River Colne near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.
The River Colne / ˈ k oʊ n / in West Yorkshire is formed at the confluence of two brooks that originate in the Pennines close to Marsden. It flows in an easterly direction through the Colne Valley and Huddersfield towards Cooper Bridge where it flows into the River Calder .
Colne Bridge (English: / ˈ k oʊ l n /) is an historic 18th-century bridge near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. A Grade II listed stone-built arch bridge, it spans the River Colne between Bradley and Kirkheaton. [1] A Colne Bridge was mentioned in the Fountains Abbey records of the 12th century.
This semi-rural constituency covers the Colne Valley, Holme Valley, Meltham and the outskirts of the large town of Huddersfield in the district of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. In addition to the Huddersfield suburbs of Golcar and Lindley , the constituency comprises rural countryside broken up by the towns of Holmfirth and Meltham and the villages ...
Marsden is a large village in the Colne Valley, in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the South Pennines close to the Peak District which lies to the south. The village is 7 miles (11 km) west of Huddersfield at the confluence of the River Colne and Wessenden Brook. It was an important centre for the ...
Colne Valley UD was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees on 1 April 1974. No successor parish was created for the area, but its boundaries remain reflected in a ward of the same name on Kirklees Council. The surrounding pre-1974 districts which now make up West Yorkshire
The Colne Valley Museum is in the Colne Valley at Golcar, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.The museum consists of four converted 19th-century weavers' cottages.The museum provides an insight into what life was like for a weaver in the early 1850s.