Newsome

Coordinates: 53°37′34″N 1°47′06″W / 53.626°N 1.785°W / 53.626; -1.785
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53°37′34″N 1°47′06″W / 53.626°N 1.785°W / 53.626; -1.785

Newsome is a village situated approximately 1 mile south of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. The village lies at the centre of Newsome Ward to which it gives its name.

Geography

Newsome stands on a shoulder of land below Castle Hill and above the valley where the River Holme meets the River Colne. The village lies between Berry Brow, Hall Bower and Taylor Hill.

Newsome viewed from Castle Hill

Facilities

The village has both housing and industrial units, the latter mostly within the site of the former Newsome Mill, which used to produce woollen textiles.

Newsome used to have a large bakehouse, (which made award-winning pork pies), but these industrial units, (across from, now damaged, Newsome Mill), now hold businesses. The

Huddersfield Examiner announced in February 2013 the closure to the Huddersfield shops, as well as the bakehouse.[1]

Schools

There is a secondary school,

Huddersfield Examiner announced on 11 July 2009 that the specialist school in Newsome had one confirmed case of swine flu.[6]

Sport

Newsome FC are an open age amateur

. The third team are Champions of HDAFL Reserve Division 1 and holders of the Richardson Cup.

The Newsome Panthers, an amateur rugby league club, are based here.[7] The club fields ten junior teams and an open age team in several leagues operated by British Amateur Rugby League Association. The club plays their home games at the secondary school and the committee meets in one of the village's public houses, The Fountain Inn.

Transport

The nearest Mainline railway station is in

First Calderdale & Huddersfield and Team Penine.[8]

References

  1. ^ Sutcliffe, Robert (11 February 2013). "Parfitt's Bakery shuts with loss of 63 staff". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  2. ^ 'What are Specialist Schools?' - DfES Archived 30 August 2002 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "West Yorkshire's Teacher of the Year 2006". Archived from the original on 6 February 2007. Retrieved 25 July 2006.
  4. ^ "Kirklees.gov.uk Website Hillside Primary School listing". Archived from the original on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
  5. ^ Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities
  6. Huddersfield Examiner
    . 7 July 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
  7. ^ "Newsome Panthers official site". Archived from the original on 14 June 2006. Retrieved 25 July 2006.
  8. ^ "Metro Pink Line" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2006. Retrieved 25 July 2006.

External links

  • Media related to Newsome at Wikimedia Commons