Skelmanthorpe is a
clustered village
A ''Haufendorf'' is an enclosed village with irregular plots of land and farms of greatly differing scale, usually surrounded by a stockade fence (German: ''Ortsetter''). They are typically found in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, whence the nam ...
8 miles (13 km) south-east 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 ...
,
West Yorkshire
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, England. According to the 2011 census, the village has 4,549 inhabitants.
The village sits on the south (
right
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) bank of the first river-like flow, from three small headwaters (uniting in the northwest corner of the parish), of the
Dearne. It is part of the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
of
Denby Dale
Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 10 miles (17 km) to the south-east of Huddersfield and 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Barnsley.
The village is the main village ...
in the
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 ...
Borough, the main local authority.
Name
The village was recorded as ''Scelmertorp'' in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
in the year
1086 AD. The name itself derives from the
Norse personal name
A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known ...
''Skjaldmarr'' and ''
thorp
''Thorp'' is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village.
Etymology
The name can either come from Old Norse ''þorp'' (also ''thorp''), or from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) ''þrop''. There are many place names in England with the suffi ...
''; thus having the meaning of an "outlying farmstead of a man called Skjaldmarr".
Shat
Locals know it as "Shat", which appears to be an abbreviation of "Shatterers", the name by which the locals are known. Local labour was taken on during construction of the railway to break or 'shatter' rocks as well as work on the excavations. These unskilled labourers were referred to as Shatterers.
The ''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
'' actress
Jodie Whittaker
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She came to prominence ...
has explained the origins of the term and referred to herself as a "Shat lass".
[Watch Jodie Whittaker explain to Hollywood stars on the Graham Norton Show why she is a 'Shat lass']
Yorkshire Live, 29 September 2018
History
Origins
The village was probably founded during the
Viking
Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden),
who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
invasion in the 9th century, as they moved inland from the
North Sea
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.
There is no record of the village in the earlier
Roman
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...
times.
Domesday Book
The entry for Skelmanthorpe in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
of 1086 states:
''Manors & Berewick. In Turulsetone and Berceworde and Scelmertorp, Alric and Aldene had nine carcucates of land to be taxed, and there may be five ploughs there. Ilbert now has it, and it is waste. Value in King Edwards time 4 pounds. Wood pasture one mile long and as much broad.''
The comment "and it is waste." is a direct result of the
Harrying of the North
The Harrying of the North was a series of campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–1070 to subjugate northern England, where the presence of the last House of Wessex, Wessex claimant, Edgar Ætheling, had encouraged An ...
of 1069.
William the Conqueror
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had difficulties subduing his northern subjects, leading to the order to "spare neither man nor beast, but to kill, burn and destroy" being issued.
This left Skelmanthorpe and much of
Yorkshire
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a wasteland for about nine years.
Skelmanthorpe Feast
During the 1770s, Skelmanthorpe Feast was a riotous affair with
bull
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includin ...
and
bear-baiting
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History Europe Great Britain
Bear-baiting was very popular from the 12th ...
and organised
dog fights
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on the village green.
A quote from John Taylor, who compiled a biography of Skelmanthorpe-born preacher Isaac Marsden (1807–1882), records that "Public houses were crowded with drunken revellers, who caroused all day and made night hideous with quarrels and disturbances ... Among these scenes of revelry were mountebanks, showmen, fortune telling Gypsies, vagabonds and thieves from every quarter."
Skelmanthorpe Feast now happens every year on the field next to The Chartist and across the road from what was the Three Horse Shoes public house and is now shops.
Native/Navvy War
In November 1874 a number of skirmishes were fought between the native villagers and Irish
navvies
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. The navvies had been brought in to help construct the railway, and fighting broke out between them and the locals on a number of occasions. This led to the locals being refused work on the line. Causing a small group of locals to throw stones at the navvies, who responded with
mattock
A mattock is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick matt ...
shafts and spades. The fighting lasted for most of the day eventually ending in the afternoon. Police were called in from
Huddersfield
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but arrived after the disturbances had finished.
Ownership
The first recorded owners of the village were Alric and Aldena in the 11th century, mentioned in the
Domesday Book
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of 1086. Following the Norman invasion of England in 1066 the village was given to
Ilbert de Laci by the new king. The
de Laci
de Lacy (Laci, Lacie, Lascy, Lacey, Lassey) is the surname of an old Norman family which originated from Lassy, Calvados. The family took part in the Norman Conquest of England and the later Norman invasion of Ireland. The name is first recorde ...
family owned the village for the next 300 years, until through the marriage of
Alice de Laci in the 14th century, the village came into the possession of
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster
Thomas of Lancaster, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl of Derby, ''jure uxoris'' 4th Earl of Lincoln and ''jure uxoris'' 5th Earl of Salisbury (c. 1278 – 22 March 1322) was an English nobleman. A member of the House of Pl ...
. The village remained in this family and after the marriage of
Blanche of Lancaster
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to
John of Gaunt
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, the village became the property of their son
Henry
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People
*Henry (given name)
*Henry (surname)
* Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry
Royalty
* Portuguese royalty
** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal
** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...
(King of England).
Cinema/Bingo/Squash/Youth Centre
In 1934 a building was built to house a local
cinema
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Film
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* Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image
** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
* ...
, this was the sole use of the building for almost 30 years. In 1961
wrestling
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was introduced to increase revenue. A reduction in audiences in 1968 resulted in the cinema closing and the building became a
bingo
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Arts and entertainment Gaming
* Bingo, a game using a printed card of numbers
** Bingo (British version), a game using a printed card of 15 numbers on three lines; most commonly played in the UK and Ireland
** Bi ...
hall until 1970 when the entire building was closed. It lay dormant for five years before being reopened as the Savoy Squash Club.
In June 2010, redevelopment of part of the Savoy Club will have been completed into a new Youth and Community Centre. This includes a new car park, outdoor 5-a-side court, sports hall with a stage, meeting room and cafe.
Industry
Similar to many village in the area,
agriculture
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...
was the primary industry of Skelmanthorpe until the 19th century when
weaving
Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Other methods are knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The longitudinal th ...
took over as the dominant occupation. Many of the older buildings in the village show signs of having been used as weavers cottages in the past.
As late as 1890, there were 200
hand looms in cottages in Skelmanthorpe.
Number 6, Queen Street was preserved by Textile Heritage Centre, complete with hand loom and all the associated equipment. The owner became frail and a group called the Friends of Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre was formed in 2011 to assist with the running of the centre. The Friends successfully applied the Heritage Lottery Fund to purchase the centre. The centre is now owned by a charitable trust.
Survey of English Dialects
Skelmanthorpe was a site in the
Survey of English Dialects
The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor Harold Orton of the English department of the University of Leeds. It aimed to collect the full range of speech in England and Wales before loca ...
. The recording taken was notable both because of the rich form of dialect used and because it discussed a local sighting of a ghost. This stood out in the survey, in which most recordings were of villagers discussing local industries.
Buildings and services
Schools
Two
school
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s are in Skelmanthorpe:
* St Aidan's Church of England Academy
* Skelmanthorpe Academy
Both of these are First schools, serving children up to Year 5 (rather than Year 6 like most primary schools).
After the first school, children move on to Middle School (usually Scissett Middle School) for 3 years before moving on to Shelley College.
Churches
Skelmanthorpe has five
churches:
*Church of St Aidan – (
Church of England
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–
Anglican
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)
*Skelmanthorpe
Methodist
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Church
*Trinity
Evangelical
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Church
*Skelmanthorpe
Wesleyan
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Reform Church (now closed and demolished)
*Saville Road Hall (Christian –
non-denominational
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Overview
The term has been used in the context of various faiths including Jainism, Baháʼí Fait ...
)
Fire station
The
fire station
__NOTOC__
A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire h ...
was constructed in 1956. It currently houses one pump and one area support unit along with 21 personnel and is designated as a retained fire station.
Sports teams and facilities
The village has had its own
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 ...
team since around 1876; the current
cricket pitch
In the game of cricket, the cricket pitch consists of the central strip of the cricket field between the wickets. It is long (1 chain) and wide. The surface is flat and is normally covered with extremely short grass, but can be completely d ...
dates from 1900.
The village also has its own junior and senior football teams that play in the Huddersfield leagues respectively.
There are two crown green bowls clubs within the village. One club is based at the Windmill Pub on the outskirts of the village and the other club based in the centre of the village. Each club have their own bowling green.
Following a
petition
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In the colloquial sense, a petition is a document addressed to some offici ...
from local young people
fundraising
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allowed the construction of a small
skatepark
A skatepark, or skate park, is a purpose-built recreational environment made for skateboarding, BMX, scootering, wheelchairs, and aggressive inline skating. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, handrails, funboxes, vert ramps, stairsets, q ...
which opened early 2006. Residents from the area complained about the noise and the skatepark has since been moved. It is now at the bottom of the football field.
Parkgate Sports and Community Trust have won the right for a new sports complex to be built at Parkgate.
Transport
Railway
For more than 100 years (from 1879 until 1986), Skelmanthorpe had a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
on the
Clayton West branch line
The Clayton West branch line was a standard gauge passenger and freight railway near Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, England. The line was built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, opening to traffic in September 1879. Many proposals were ...
that ran along the northern edge of the village. The line was closed to passengers in 1983 and the track was removed in 1986.
The disused trackbed of the former branch line was later used for the
Kirklees Light Railway
Whistlestop Valley, formerly the Kirklees Light Railway, is a visitor attraction featuring a long gauge minimum gauge railway. The attraction's main site is in the village of Clayton West in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England which was first ...
, a
minimum gauge railway
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designed as a
tourist attraction
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Types
Places of natural b ...
, which opened as far as Skelmanthorpe in 1992.
The nearest railway stations now are
Denby Dale
Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 10 miles (17 km) to the south-east of Huddersfield and 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Barnsley.
The village is the main village ...
(2.2 miles) and
Shepley
Shepley is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, and in the Diocese of Wakefield. It lies south south east of Huddersfield and north west of Penistone.
In the 2011 census the population of Shep ...
(3.1 miles); both stations are on the
Penistone Line
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with trains in both directions to
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 ...
,
Barnsley
Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...
and
Sheffield
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Buses
Skelmanthorpe is served by bus services to
Holmfirth
Holmfirth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, on the A635 and A6024 in the Holme Valley, at the confluence of the River Holme and Ribble, south of Huddersfield and west of Barnsley. It mostly consist ...
and
Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...
on the X1 service and
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 ...
and
Denby Dale
Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 10 miles (17 km) to the south-east of Huddersfield and 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Barnsley.
The village is the main village ...
on the
D1 Denby Darts
D1 Denby Darts is a bus route that runs between Huddersfield and Denby Dale via Skelmanthorpe.
History
In April 2019, two local councillors complained about the service, then numbered 233 and operated by Yorkshire Tiger, claiming that people a ...
service.
Team Pennine
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History Sta ...
is the bus company that runs these services through the village.
Roads
The main road through the village is the
B6116, Which connects to the
A629 and
A636.
Notable groups and Residents
Male voice choir and brass band
Skelmanthorpe Male Voice Choir began in 1934:
#To maintain and increase the love of and the interest in music in the village.
#To help charitable institutions.
#To increase the fame and renown of the village by winning competitions.
Since 2009 its director is Jane Hobson.
Formed in 1843, the Skelmanthorpe Brass Band is among the oldest ten
of such bands in Britain.
They rank in the
First Section of The National Brass Band Championships.
Residents & Ex-residents
Actresses:
*
Jodie Whittaker
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She came to prominence ...
.
She has appeared in films including ''
Venus
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'' and ''
St Trinian's
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'' and portrayed the
Thirteenth Doctor
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in the television series ''
Doctor Who
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'' she mentioned she was a "Shat lass" on
Graham Norton
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's chat show.
[
*]Lena Headey
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who starred in ''St Trinian's'' with Whittaker — Cersei Lannister
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in ''Game of Thrones
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''.
Musicians:
*Biff Byford
Peter Rodney "Biff" Byford (born 15 January 1951) is an English singer best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Saxon.
Early life
Byford was born in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire, the youngest of four children to Ernest Cha ...
, lead of heavy-metal band Saxon
The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic
*
*
*
*
peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
.
Academics:
*Dr Rebecca Webster, Psychologist, researcher and Forbes 30 under 30
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honoree
Setting for film or television
During the mid-1970s, central parts were a set for Yorkshire Television sitcom
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, ''Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!
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'', starring Bill Maynard
Walter Frederick George Williams (8 October 1928 – 30 March 2018), better known by his stage name Bill Maynard, was an English comedian and actor. He began working in television in the 1950s, notably starring alongside Terry Scott in ''Gre ...
.
Nearby places
Towns and cities: Barnsley
Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...
, 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 ...
, Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...
Villages: Denby Dale
Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 10 miles (17 km) to the south-east of Huddersfield and 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Barnsley.
The village is the main village ...
, Clayton West
Clayton West is a village in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 2,648 (2001 census) and 2,704 in 2008. It is southeast of Huddersfield and northwest of Barnsley.
History
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to ...
, Emley, Lower Cumberworth
Lower Cumberworth is a village in the borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. The village is situated 8 miles (13 km) to the south-east of Huddersfield.
The civil parish of Denby Dale covers the village. The parish council gave the popu ...
, Scissett
Scissett is a village in West Yorkshire, England. It is south-east of Huddersfield and north-west of Barnsley. According to the 2001 census, the village had a population of 1,324. Scissett is halfway between the villages of Clayton West, S ...
, Shelley, Shepley
Shepley is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, and in the Diocese of Wakefield. It lies south south east of Huddersfield and north west of Penistone.
In the 2011 census the population of Shep ...
See also
*Listed buildings in Denby Dale
Denby Dale is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It contains 82 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of ...
References
External links
Friends of Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre
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Villages in West Yorkshire
Denby Dale