Dalton | |
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Street junction in Dalton | |
Location within West Yorkshire | |
Population | 518 (2011 Census) |
OS grid reference | SE171172 |
Metropolitan borough | |
Metropolitan county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | HUDDERSFIELD |
Postcode district | HD5 |
Dialling code | 01484 |
Police | West Yorkshire |
Fire | West Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
UK Parliament | |
Dalton is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in England, approximately one mile east of the town centre between Moldgreen, Rawthorpe and Kirkheaton.
Located in a small valley it is mostly housing, with a small number of engineering firms to the north-west, surrounded by farmland used in the production of milk.
Germaine Lindsay, one of the suicide bombers involved in the 7 July 2005 London bombings, had lived in the area following his arrival from Jamaica aged five. [1]
Dalton was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. This tax-motivated survey commissioned by William the Conqueror listed landholdings and resources. However, unlike other areas surrounding Huddersfield, Dalton was not listed as `waste', meaning uncultivated or unusable land, and there was economic activity. A plough was being used and the land was worth ten shillings. [2]
Sir William Fleming III seems to have been interested in farming, for he held himself the manor farm at Wath, farmed for him by Hugh Bacon and his son, Adam Bacon. He also held himself the smaller farm at Dalton near Huddersfield
Currently, the Edgerton & Dalton Cricket Club play at the ground the end of Dalton Fold Road. They are in the Huddersfield Cricket League.
The Moldgreen Amateur Rugby League team play at the DRAM (Dalton, Rawthorpe And Moldgreen) Centre fields off Ridgeway in Dalton.
Holmfirth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, on the A635 and A6024 in the Holme Valley, at the confluence of the River Holme and Ribble, 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Huddersfield and 14 miles (23 km) west of Barnsley. It mostly consists of stone-built cottages nestled on the eastern slopes of the Pennine hills. The boundary of the Peak District National Park is 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of the town.
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the reorganisation of the Local Government Act 1972 which saw it formed from a large part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The county had a population of 2.3 million in the 2011 census making it the fourth-largest by population in England. The largest towns are Huddersfield, Castleford, Batley, Bingley, Pontefract, Halifax, Brighouse, Keighley, Pudsey, Morley and Dewsbury. The three cities of West Yorkshire are Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield.
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Netherhall Learning Campus is a federation of 4 schools which share the same campus in Rawthorpe, Huddersfield, England. The federation was formed in 2008, and includes Netherhall St. James Infant & Nursery School, Netherhall Junior School, Netherhall High School and the Creative and Media Studio School.
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The Huddersfield Central Cricket League was a cricket league featuring teams in and around the town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England between 1913 and 2016.