Pole Moor is a hamlet between

Outlane Outlane is a village in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, situated approximately south-west of Elland, north-west of Huddersfield and south of Halifax. The village is situated next to the M62 motorway near Junction 23 and straddles the K ...

and

Scammonden Scammonden or Dean Head was a village close to Huddersfield, in the Dean Head Valley, England, before the valley was flooded to create Scammonden Reservoir in the 1960s. The M62 motorway crosses the dam wall and then passes through a cutting to ...

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 ...

, England. It is situated on a high moorland plateau between Slaithwaite and Wholestone Moors in the

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History

At the start of the

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the inhabitants were woollen weavers. When the Earl of Dartmouth objected to a chapel being built on his land at

Slaithwaite Slaithwaite , locally ''Slawit'' (Old Norse: Timber-fell clearing), is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies in the Colne Valley, lying a ...

, the Baptists built their chapel on the edge of Worts Hill in 1790. After closing in 1992, the chapel, Sunday school and an adjoining late-19th century warehouse were converted into housing and are Grade II

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. The

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 ...

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...

turnpike road of 1806, the A640 passes over Pole Moor where there was an inn, the Royal George, and where several

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routes crossed, including one from Halifax to Marsden and on to

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Geography

Scammonden Reservoir Scammonden Reservoir is a water reservoir in West Yorkshire, England. Its water surface area when full is . The level of the bellmouth overflow above sea level is . The reservoir holds . Its length is . History Scammonden Dam is part of the ...

in the Deanhead Valley is to the west, the

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passes to the north and to the south below Moorside Edge is Slaithwaite in the

Colne Valley The Colne Valley is a steep sided valley on the east flank of the Pennine Hills in the English county of West Yorkshire. It takes its name from the River Colne which rises above the town of Marsden and flows eastward towards Huddersfield. ...

. Moorside Edge medium wave

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's antenna are located at OD on the moor. An old bridle way passed over the moor to Scammonden at Worts Hill to the west.

Inns

Among the hamlet's public houses were the Lower Royal George and the Upper Royal George which was built in 1457 as the Royal George Inn and renamed the Jack O' Mitre in the 1980s. The Sun Inn was demolished. The Nont Sarah Hotel is being refurbished as a community hub.Huddersfield Examiner - Nont Sarah's
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References

{{reflist Hamlets in West Yorkshire Geography of Kirklees