Batley Carr,

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is a district partly in

Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...

and partly in

Batley Batley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. Batley lies south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield. Batley is part of the ...

, on the way to

, along the A652, Bradford Road.

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part of the

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, the population is about 3,740. Crime is around the national average. Batley Carr housed the workers from the mills of

and Batley Carr. As the settlement expanded, with the growth of

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, there was a necessity for its own

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(

Staincliffe and Batley Carr railway station Staincliffe and Batley Carr railway station served the hamlet of Staincliffe and the district of Batley Carr in West Yorkshire, England from 1878 to 1952 on the Huddersfield Line The Huddersfield line is the main railway line between the ...

). The red brick

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's house still stands but is now a private residence. However, Batley Carr has since dwindled in size and now only has a post office, a few shops (mainly takeaways) and some remaining factories including the British Beds haulage depot. It is near the nightclub 'The Frontier'. Public houses and

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s are still popular. Shannon Matthews, who disappeared from

Dewsbury Moor Dewsbury Moor is a district of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies to the west of the Dewsbury town centre. The population is around 5,650. Crime rates are higher than the national avera ...

on 19 February 2008, was found alive on 14 March 2008 in Lidgate Gardens, Batley Carr."Missing Shannon Matthews's mother: 'Someone who knows her knows something'"

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, 3 March 2008

Notable people

* Horace Waller, recipient of the

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, Prefect of the

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and ninth

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References

Heavy Woollen District Geography of Batley {{WestYorkshire-geo-stub