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Fixby
Location within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference SE132194
•  London 165 miles (266 km)
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HUDDERSFIELD
Postcode district HD2
Police West Yorkshire
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53°40′22″N1°48′00″W / 53.67271°N 1.80004°W / 53.67271; -1.80004

Fixby is a suburb in north-west Kirklees bordering neighbouring Calderdale and is traditionally part of Huddersfield in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

The area is now sought after suburban location of Huddersfield for homeowners. [1] The village is just off the A6107 road and south of the M62 motorway. [2]

The Huddersfield Crematorium is also situated in the area. [3]

Much of the historical Fixby Estate is now a golf course, with Fixby Hall as the clubhouse for Huddersfield Golf Club, [4] and intersected by the Kirklees Way footpath. [5] Fixby Hall is a grade II listed building. [6]

History

The name "Fixby" derives from the Gaelic Irish personal name Fiach. [7] Fixby is mentioned in the Domesday Book. [8]

In the nineteenth century Fixby was a large estate to which social reformer Richard Oastler was appointed as steward from 1830 until 1838 when he was relieved of his duties for his political activities: pamphleteering, lobbying and in the establishment of Short Time Committees in industrial towns throughout Yorkshire. The Short Time committees organised public meetings in order to raise petitions to improve conditions for children in the workplaces of the day and resulted in the Factory Act of 1847, with which Oastler was never fully satisfied. [9]

Fixby was formerly a township in the parish of Halifax, [10] in 1866 Fixby became a separate civil parish, [11] on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with Huddesfield, Elland and Brighouse. [12] In 1931 the parish had a population of 582. [13]

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  2. ↑ "288" (Map). Bradford & Huddersfield. 1;25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN   9780319244852.
  3. ↑ Sutcliffe, Robert (11 December 2016). "Huddersfield Crematorium needs a new furnace". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Whitwam, Linda (8 October 2011). "Conservationist background of man behind the development of Huddersfield's countryside". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "Kirklees Way - LDWA Long Distance Paths". www.ldwa.org.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Fixby Hall (Grade II) (1134236)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  7. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 181. ISBN   0-19-869103-3.
  8. ↑ Powell-Smith, Anna. "Fixby | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  9. ↑ "Factory King who battled to free child slaves". The Yorkshire Post. 12 December 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  10. ↑ "History of Fixby, in Kirklees and West Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  11. ↑ "Relationships and changes Fixby CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
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