Paddock is a district of

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

Harold Wilson James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (11 March 1916 – 23 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 197 ...

. 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 *

, Prime Minister went to school in Paddock and was born in nearby Milnsbridge

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