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11 Facts About Horbury

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Horbury is a town in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.

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Horbury had a church dating from about 1106 which was a daughter church of the church in Wakefield and possibly replaced an earlier Saxon church.

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The land in Horbury was divided into three great fields, Northfield, Southfield and Westfield, and remains of medieval ridge and furrow of strip cultivation are visible in Carr Lodge Park.

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Historically Horbury was a chapelry in the parish of Wakefield, in the lower division of the Wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley and part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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In 2008 Horbury had a largely white population compared with Yorkshire and the Humber.

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6.

Horbury had a chapel of ease to the Church of All Saints in Wakefield, from before the time of the Domesday Book.

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St Peter and St Leonard's Church, the parish church, was designed by John Carr, the Horbury born architect who built it in the Georgian neo-classical style between 1790 and 1794 at a cost to himself of £8,000.

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Foundation of St John's Church at Horbury Bridge was in a mission meeting in a room in what is the hairdressers in 1864.

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Horbury is policed by the West Yorkshire Police force from Ossett Police Station and is within the DA, Wakefield division, which covers the whole district.

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10.

Horbury's nephew bought Sunroyd House in 1789 and renamed it "Carr Lodge".

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11.

Horbury Bridge is known as the home of Onward, Christian Soldiers, the hymn written by Sabine Baring-Gould.

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