Storthes Hall is part of the civil parish of Kirkburton in West Yorkshire, England. A heavily wooded area, it comprises a single road, Storthes Hall Lane, which links Kirkburton to Farnley Tyas and Thurstonland. The most significant properties are Storthes Hall Mansion (now a private property), Storthes Hall Hospital (located further west with the main administrative block surviving as a derelict building) and Storthes Hall Park Student Village which has been built on the old hospital site.
Storthes Hall Mansion was built for the mill owning Horsfall family in about 1788; it passed to the Bill family after Dorothy, daughter of William Horsfall, married Robert Bill of Farley Hall in Staffordshire. The house was inherited by their son, Charles Horsfall Bill. [1] [2] It is close to Kirkburton and was renamed The Mansion Hospital when it became an independently managed facility for people with learning disabilities. [3] After the Mansion Hospital closed in 1991, the building, which is Grade II listed, was returned to private residential use. [2]
An area to the west of The Mansion, closer to Farnley Tyas, was developed as Storthes Hall Hospital in the early 20th century. [4] After the hospital closed in 1992, part of its site was used as a training facility for Huddersfield Town A.F.C. [5] before their move to their state of the art Canalside facility off Leeds Road in 2011. [6]
Much of the area previously occupied by the Storthes Hall Hospital was developed a Storthes Hall Park Student Village, a student campus for the University of Huddersfield in the mid 1990s. [7] The village accommodates the largest single concentration of students from the university with more than 1,300 students staying every year. [8]
Kirkburton is a village, civil parish and ward in Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Huddersfield. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the township comprised the villages of Kirkburton and Highburton and several hamlets, including Thunder Bridge, Thorncliffe, Storthes Hall and Linfit. According to the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 26,439, while the village had a population of 4,299.
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Colne Valley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Jason McCartney of the Conservative Party.
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Thurstonland and Farnley Tyas was an urban district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1925 to 1938.
Shepley is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, and in the Diocese of Wakefield. It lies 8 miles (13 km) south south east of Huddersfield and 6 miles (9.7 km) north west of Penistone.
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Myers Wood is a wooded area in the village of Kirkburton, West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of a heavily forested area to the west of the village, occupying the rise in the valley leading up to Storthes Hall and beyond. It is directly west of the main Penistone Road, opposite Riley. Saville Wood is directly south, close to Thunder Bridge. Local residents consider the wood to be of poor quality due to the absence of woodland management.
William Henry Thorman was an English rugby union forward who was a member of the British Isles XV that toured South Africa in 1891. Despite playing for Cambridge and the British Isles, Thorman was never awarded a national cap.
Kirkburton railway station served the village of Kirkburton, West Yorkshire, England until closure in 1930.
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Reverend Joseph Miller BD was a Congregational minister, much in demand as an "eloquent preacher" for 14 years in the north of England. While in Hamburg during his ministry he "rendered valuable assistance to his countrymen in distress" following a call from the American Embassy there. However, in 1929 he "created a sensation" by becoming an Anglican priest. His first Anglican incumbency was as vicar of the Church of St Mark, Old Leeds Road, Huddersfield, England, from 1929 to 1931.
Shelley Community Football Club is a football club based in Shelley, West Yorkshire, England. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One North and play at Storthes Hall Park. The club is a FA Charter Standard Club affiliated to the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Football Association.
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Storthes Hall Hospital was a mental health facility at Storthes Hall, West Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1904, it expanded to over 3,000 patients during the Second World War. After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1992.
Kirkburton is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It contains 164 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The list also includes two listed buildings outside the parish but in Kirkburton ward; both of these are at Grade II. There are no major towns in the parish, but it contains villages and smaller settlements including Farnley Tyas, Flockton, Flockton Green, Grange Moor, Highburton, Kirkheaton, Lepton, Shelley, Shepley, Stocksmoor, Thunder Bridge, and Thurstonland. The parish is otherwise rural.