Huddersfield

About Huddersfield

My Hometown







Grateful thanks to Frank Carr for permission to use his pictures

Huddersfield (formerly a County Borough), is

now known as Kirklees Metropolitan Borough.

In it's heyday it was a very important town to the

Yorkshire WOOLEN Industry.

Also a major industrial engineering centre.

It still has an important engineering role to play overall.

There are excellent shopping facilities with Pedestrian

precincts and several shopping arcades plus very good

hotels and restaraunts.

Huddersfield has easy access to the M62 motorway

east and west, but it's main attraction for tourists is the

Penine access to the most beautiful Penine scenery.

Historically, Huddersfield was a very early settlement,the

site known locally as 'Castle Hill' goes back to Neolithic

times around 2100 BC and later became an Iron Age fort.

Henry de Lacey built a castle on the hill about 1140 AD, it

was destroyed around 1322 AD.

Holmfirth just below the Holme Moss TV mast is the location

and surrounds where most of the TV series

'Last of the Summer Wine' is made.



.....I wonder who this cool dude is.....


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