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Kirklees
Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. The borough comprises the ten towns of Batley, Birstall, West Yorkshire, 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 Yorkshire by List of English districts by area, area, behind Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, Doncaster and City of Leeds, Leeds. History The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 as part of a reform of local government in England. Eleven former local government districts were Amalgamation (politics), merged: the county boroughs of County Borough of Huddersfield, Huddersfield and County Borough of Dewsbury, Dewsbury, the municipal boroughs of Municipal Borough of Batley, Batley and Municipal Borough of Spenborough, Spenborough and the Urban district (Great Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirklees Council
Kirklees Council, also known as Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council, is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. As a metropolitan borough council it provides the majority of local government services in the borough. Since 2014 the council has been a constituent members of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. The council has been under no overall control since 2024. It meets at Huddersfield Town Hall and has its main offices in the nearby Civic Centre. History Kirklees Council was established on 1 April 1974, when Kirklees and West Yorkshire were created under the Local Government Act 1972. The eleven former district councils within the area were abolished at the same time. Kirklees was awarded borough status, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. The council was originally a district-level authority in a two-tier local government structure, alongside West Yorkshire County Council providing county- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into the similar-sized Colne is to the south of the town centre which then flows into the Calder in the north eastern outskirts of the town. The rivers around the town provided soft water required for textile treatment in large weaving sheds; this made it a prominent mill town with an economic boom in the early part of the Victorian era Industrial Revolution. The town centre has much neoclassical Victorian architecture. An example is , which is a Grade I listed building described by John Betjeman as "the most splendid station façade in England". It won the Europa Nostra award for architecture. Huddersfield hosts the University of Huddersfield and three colleges: Greenhead College, Kirklees College and Huddersfield New Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirklees Light Railway
Whistlestop Valley, formerly the Kirklees Light Railway, is a Tourist attraction, visitor attraction featuring a long Track gauge, gauge minimum-gauge railway. The attraction's main site is in the village of Clayton West in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England which was first opened to the public on 19 October 1991, with a second, smaller site in a rural area near the village of Shelley, West Yorkshire, Shelley. The railway at Whistlestop Valley runs along the trackbed of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway's former branch line, from Clayton West railway station, Clayton West via Skelmanthorpe railway station, Skelmanthorpe to Shelley railway station, Shelley Woodhouse (a few yards close to the former Clayton West Junction , near ) on the Penistone line from Huddersfield railway station, Huddersfield to Sheffield railway station, Sheffield via Penistone railway station, Penistone and Barnsley Interchange, Barnsley. From 1991 to 2021 the attraction was known as the Kirklees Light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
