25 Facts About Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

Huddersfield was a prominent mill town in the industrial revolution.

Huddersfield has a professional football team, Huddersfield Town, who currently compete in the Championship.

Manor of Huddersfield was owned by long lease by the de Lacy becoming Lacey family until its 1322 takeback by the Crown.

Huddersfield was a centre of civil unrest during this phase of the Industrial Revolution in which Europe saw frequent wars during and after which, as to those most acutely affecting Britain, cloth trade slumped which could be compounded by local crops failure, many local weavers faced starvation and losing their livelihood due to the new, mechanised weaving sheds.

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Huddersfield was incorporated as a municipal borough in the ancient West Riding of Yorkshire in 1868.

Huddersfield expanded in 1937, assimilating parts of the Golcar, Linthwaite, and South Crosland urban districts.

Huddersfield had a strong Liberal tradition up to the 1950s reflected in several Liberal social clubs.

The current Member of Parliament for the Huddersfield constituency is Barry Sheerman, a Labour Co-operative MP.

Huddersfield has the merger of the shallow valley floors of the River Colne and the Holme south of the town centre.

Huddersfield is within a green belt region that extends into the Kirklees borough and wider surrounding counties.

Huddersfield is a manufacturing town, despite the university being the largest employer.

Huddersfield is home to Andrew Jones Pies, a regional award-winning pie-maker, and Mamas and Papas, a manufacturer and retailer of prams, pushchairs and related items and specialist pneumatics supplier Shelley Automation Ltd.

Huddersfield has a large and diverse retail shopping area, enclosed within the town's ring road, compared with other towns of its size.

Huddersfield is home to thrash metal band Evile, dance rock band Kava Kava, the birthplace of the synthpop musician Billy Currie, the hard rock bassist John McCoy who played with Neo and Gillan.

Ian Berry was born in Netherton, Huddersfield and was educated in the town and went to Greenhead College and is internationally renowned for his art using only denim jeans and was named as one of the top 30 artists under the world in 2013.

Huddersfield Town Hall is a municipal building in the town: it seats up to 1,200 people and hosts events ranging from classical to comedy and from choral to community events.

The hotel's Italianate facade became Huddersfield's adopted architectural style as the town developed over following decade.

Huddersfield is connected to the motorway network via the M1 and M62 motorways.

Huddersfield Corporation built an inner ring road, part of the A62, in the 1970s.

Huddersfield has a comprehensive local and regional rail service but there is no direct service to London; passengers have to change at Manchester Piccadilly, Leeds, Wakefield Westgate or Mirfield.

Huddersfield Rams Aussie Rules is an Australian rules football team, formed in 2008.

Huddersfield has a number of field hockey teams, many of which train at the Lockwood Park sports complex on the all-weather pitch.

Huddersfield won his first race in World Superbikes in one of two wildcard meetings and is the 2013 World Superbike Champion.

Some people have become known through their association with Huddersfield, though they were not born there.

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