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14 Facts About Kirklees

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Kirklees is a local government district of West Yorkshire, England, governed by Kirklees Council with the status of a metropolitan borough.

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The largest town and administrative centre of Kirklees is Huddersfield, and the district includes Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Denby Dale, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Kirkburton, Marsden, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite.

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Kirklees had a population of 422,500 in 2011; it is the third largest metropolitan district in England by area size, behind Doncaster and Leeds.

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Name Kirklees was chosen by the merging councils from more than fifty suggestions, including Upper Agbrigg, Brigantia and Wooldale.

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Kirklees sits in quite a central position to all the other surrounding unitary boroughs of West Yorkshire.

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Principal settlements of Kirklees are mill towns in the Colne Valley, Holme Valley, Calder Valley and Spen Valley.

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Some towns in Kirklees have not been served by rail transport since the Beeching cuts.

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Kirklees Council has developed a number of traffic-free cycle paths called Greenways in partnership with Sustrans.

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Tourism in Kirklees is based around the area's countryside and industrial heritage:.

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10.

Kirklees Council closed Dewsbury Museum and Red House Museum at the end of 2016, claiming it could not afford to continue running them following cuts to its budget.

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Kirklees is the most populated borough or district in England not to have city status.

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In 2001 it was announced that a grant of city status was to be made to an English town to mark the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II, and Kirklees council indicated that it was considering applying on behalf of Huddersfield.

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Since 1997 Kirklees has been divided into five constituencies: four being entirely within the borough, while one ward is included in the Wakefield Council borough.

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Accordingly, Kirklees was divided between seven constituencies, which had first been used in the 1950 general election.

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