Edgerton is a suburb of the town of

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

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. The suburb is located along the

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, also known as Edgerton Road, from Huddersfield to Halifax. It is some west of the town centre. It is the location of many of the towns largest and most imposing houses, as well as the town's principal cemetery. Although the place name has been traced back to the 14th century, Edgerton started its development in the early 19th century, when three substantial

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houses were built in the area. One of these houses, Edgerton Hill, survives today as the town's Ukrainian Club. By 1896,

Huddersfield Corporation Tramways Huddersfield Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Huddersfield, England, between 1883 and 1940. It initially used steam locomotives pulling unpowered tramcars, but as the system was expanded, a decision was taken to change to elec ...

had built one of its pioneering

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lines through Edgerton. This was succeeded in turn by

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trolley bus A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...

es and motor buses. Politically, Edgerton forms part of the Greenhead ward of the metropolitan borough of

Kirklees Kirklees is a local government district of West Yorkshire, England, governed by Kirklees Council with the status of a metropolitan borough. The largest town and administrative centre of Kirklees is Huddersfield, and the district also includes ...

and is within the Huddersfield parliamentary constituency. It is bordered to the north by the suburb of Birkby, to the east by the town centre, to the west by Lindley and to the south by

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File:Lunnclough Hall, Edgerton - geograph.org.uk - 347945.jpg, Lunnclough Hall, one of the many mansions in Edgerton File:Bremen House, Huddersfield - geograph.org.uk - 1508822.jpg, Bremen House is another of the area's listed buildings File:Tram shelter - geograph.org.uk - 347891.jpg, A shelter that dates back to the town's steam trams File:Edgerton Cemetery, Huddersfield (3311632129).jpg, Edgerton Cemetery, with

Cowcliffe Cowcliffe is an area of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Fixby and Birkby based around Cowcliffe Hill Road. Cowcliffe is a discernible village, though the boundaries are not clear and is somewhat isolated from the r ...

behind File:Luther Place, Huddersfield - geograph.org.uk - 1508861.jpg, Luther Place, just off Edgerton Road

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