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Yorkshire. 53°38′42″N1°46′47″W53.6450°N 1.7798°W. Huddersfield is a market 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.
Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The team competes in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. Huddersfield Town were founded in 1908.
- 15 August 1908; 115 years ago
- EFL Championship
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Mar 21, 2024 · Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Huddersfield, town and urban area (from 2011 built-up area), Kirklees metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. It lies in the valley of the River Colne 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Leeds.
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Coordinates: 53.6450°N 1.7798°W. Huddersfield is a large town in the Metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It was famous for its cloth industry, and where Rugby League football started. [1] Huddersfield was the birthplace for the Labour Party prime minister, Harold Wilson.
- 162,949 (2011 Census)
- West Yorkshire
Website. hud .ac .uk. The University of Huddersfield (informally Huddersfield University) is a public research university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has been a University since 1992, but has its origins in a series of institutions dating back to the 19th century.
- Semi-urban
- 17,305 (2019/20)
- Thus not for you alone
Huddersfield: A History and Celebration, by Lesley Kipling and Alan Brooke (Francis Frith, 2005) is a recent brief general history with many photographs. The last full narrative history was Roy Brook’s The Story of Huddersfield (Macgibbon & Kee, 1968). Before that were the histories by Taylor Dyson (1932) and D.F.E. Sykes (1898).
Huddersfield is in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire in England. This article covers the town of Huddersfield, and the district around it including the Colne and Holme valleys. Historically a textile town, the area is now re-inventing itself as a residential and tourist centre.