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Coordinates: 53°38′42″N 1°46′47″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.
Apr 25, 2024 · 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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Kirkburton. 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. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map. Wikivoyage. Wikipedia. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Photo: donald judge, CC BY 2.0.
Map of Huddersfield For the main shopping streets and everything inside the ring-road, it is best to explore on foot. Many of the shopping areas are pedestrianised anyway, and there is not much car parking space inside the ring-road.
The town is 14 miles (23 km) south-west of Leeds, 12 miles (19 km) west of Wakefield, 23 miles (37 km) north-west of Sheffield and 24 miles (39 km) north-east of Manchester. Huddersfield is a city in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.
Learn how to create your own. See a map of Huddersfield and its attractions: churches, markets, museums, stadium.
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).
