Deighton pronounced as Dee-ton is a district of
Huddersfield,
West Yorkshire, England. It is situated north east of the town centre and lies off the
A62 Leeds Road.
Deighton was formerly known as East Bradley, and
Bradley was called West Bradley. The name changed when the Deighton family bought the area stretching from Screamer Woods (near the Deighton Fields) to
Sheepridge and
Brackenhall.
Deighton has a
railway station on the
Huddersfield Line for services to
Huddersfield,
Leeds and
Wakefield. The typical journey time to Huddersfield is usually 7 minutes, to Wakefield Westgate 31 minutes and to Leeds 34 minutes.
The Deighton Centre was a place for educational, training and leisure activities. It was formerly a high school for Deighton, Bradley and
Brackenhall students. Deighton High School closed on 31 August 1992, and most students and some staff were relocated to
Fartown High School
North Huddersfield Trust School (formerly Fartown High School) is a coeducational secondary school located in the Fartown area of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.
Previously a community school administered by Kirklees Metropolitan Boro ...
. The centre was refurbished as a sports/music venue, and utilised by the Local Authority,
Kirklees Council, for staff training. Next door to the centre, the Deighton Sports Arena was developed which houses a gym, squash court and basketball court and is a venue for
dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s.Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004) "The Rou ...
music. In March 2016 the Deighton Centre was demolished.
The chemical company,
Syngenta
Syngenta AG is a provider of agricultural science and technology, in particular seeds and pesticides with its management headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. It is owned by ChemChina, a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
Syngenta was founded in 2 ...
has a large plant off the
A62 Leeds Road.
Leeds Road Playing Fields has
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
,
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
and all-weather pitches, a sports hall and an
athletics track. Home to Kirklees Ladies FC.
Deighton Carnival
Deighton is a multi-racial district and home to Deighton Carnival in late June every year organised by Fresh Horizons - A community based social enterprise group based in Deighton. The carnival started in 2002 and attracts 3,000 people from Deighton and the rest of Huddersfield. It starts with a procession of floats playing
Reggae Dancehall,
Bassline
Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, Dub music, dub and electronic music, electronic, traditional music, traditional, or classical music for the low-pitched Part ( ...
,
RnB,
Garage Drum and Bass
Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...
and
Reggae on the road, costumed bands make up more of the procession including ''Suga Brown'' dance group, ''"Whitacre TRA"'' and Bradley Junior and Infant and Ashbrow Junior and Infant schools.
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Areas of Huddersfield
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