Paddock is a district 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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. It is situated to the south-west of the town centre. The Paddock Ward had a population of 14,875 according to the 2001 Census. Paddock's secondary school,

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, was attended by the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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. A 2017

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report found that the school had over 1,100 students.

Notable people

Robert Baldick Robert André Edouard Baldick, FRSL (9 November 1927 – April 1972), was a British scholar of French literature, writer, translator and joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. ...

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scholar * Willie Watson, English cricketer went to school in Paddock and played for the Paddock cricket team

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{{coord, 53.643, -1.809, type:city_region:GB, display=title Colne Valley Areas of Huddersfield

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