Edgerton, Huddersfield
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Edgerton is a suburb of the town of
Huddersfield Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees 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 confl ...
in
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. The suburb is located along the
A629 road The A629 road is an intra-Yorkshire road that runs from Skipton to Rotherham through Keighley, Halifax, Huddersfield and Chapeltown in Yorkshire, England. The road runs through North, West and South Yorkshire, but before 1974, the entire leng ...
, 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 Georgian 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
steam tram Steam is water vapor, often mixed with air or an aerosol of liquid water droplets. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Saturated or superheated steam is inv ...
lines through Edgerton. This was succeeded in turn by
electric tram A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segment ...
s,
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 metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. The borough comprises the ten towns of Batley, Birstall, West Yorkshire, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite. It ...
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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.


Gallery

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


See also

* Listed buildings in Huddersfield (Greenhead Ward)


References


Areas of Huddersfield {{WestYorkshire-geo-stub