Holme is a village in the

Holme Valley Holme Valley, formerly Holmfirth is a large civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 25,049 (2001 census), increasing to 34,680 for the two wards in the 2011 Census. Its administrat ...

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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 ...

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, England. The village straddles the

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between Holmbridge and Lane village, south-west of

Holmfirth Holmfirth () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is located south of Huddersfield and west of Barnsley; the boundary of the Peak District National Park is to the south-west. The town is sited on t ...

. It is close to the boundaries of

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and the

Peak District The Peak District is an Highland, upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire, it extends into Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. It is subdivi ...

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: some properties lie outside of the National Park.

Holme Moss Holme Moss ( Above mean sea level, a.s.l.) is high moorland on the border between the Holme Valley district of Kirklees in West Yorkshire and the High Peak, Derbyshire, High Peak district of Derbyshire in England. Historically on the boundary ...

, an area of high moorland with a prominent transmitter mast, overlooks the village from the south-west.

History

Unlike many British places called Holme, the name of Holme in West Yorkshire derives from

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''holegn'' ('holly'). On 6 July 2014, Stage 2 of the 2014

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from York to Sheffield, passed through the village.

School

The schoolroom was built in 1694 with interest earned from money bequeathed by Joshua Earnshaw (£300) in 1693 and on land given by James Earnshaw, which is recorded in a document entitled ''Township of Holme – Earnshaw's Charity''. Having become dilapidated, it was rebuilt in 1820 and again in 1838 when a schoolmaster's house was added at a cost of £680. The schoolroom was closed in 1880 when education was conducted in other premises. The only remaining parts of the school are the sides of the lower storey doorway and its rough-hewn dated headstone. Holme's Board School on Pinfold Street, now known as Meal Hill Road, had 99 pupils in 1900 falling to 11 at its lowest point, but the school survived and is flourishing today. The original Holme School building near the centre of the village is a non-denominational place of worship. The schoolmaster was paid from interest accrued annually on the £300 placed in the charity. The number of children varied from 30 to 40. Until the date of the Elementary Education Act 1891, the school fees of certain children attending the Board School in Holme were paid, but this was discontinued when education was made free, and the school governors then devoted the money to the formation of a school library, with annual payments for books made from the charity.

Geography

Near the village, on the moorland of

, is the Holme Moss transmitting station; it is above sea level and tall. The

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passes south-west of the transmitter over Black Hill. The

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passes through the village. Water seeping from the surrounding moorland is the source of the

River Holme The Holme of the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England is a tributary of the River Colne, West Yorkshire. The source is via Digley Reservoir, fed firstly by the run-off from Brownhill Reservoir, then by Dobbs Dike. Banks along the upper valle ...

which passes through the

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 ...

, where it flows into the River Colne. The village is accessed by the A6024 Woodhead Road. It has a public house, the Fleece, and a school. In 1822 Thomas Langdale recorded a population of 459 for the township of Holme. In 1931 the parish had a population of 368.

Governance

Holme was a

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in the parish of Holme-Bridge. From 1866 Holme was a civil parish in its own right, until on 1 April 1938 the parish was abolished and merged with Holmfirth; part also went to form Dunford.

Gallery

File:Holme Village.JPG, Holme, viewed from Rake Head Road File:Holme Moss Transmission Tower.JPG, Holme Moss radio tower File:The fleece.jpg, The Fleece at Holme with Holme Moss radio tower in background File:Holme, West Yorkshire, Winter 1978.jpg, Holme village (winter 1978), viewed from the south-west File:Holme & reservoirs viewed from Holme Moss 2009-02-06(RLH).JPG, Holme village (February 2009) with Brownhill & Yateholme Reservoirs, viewed from Holme Moss, with Emley Moor TV Transmitter on the horizon. Just above Holme are Upperthong and

. File:Digley Reservoir, Holme, West Yorkshire 2009-02-06(RLH).JPG, Holme Moss, above Digley Reservoir and Holme Village (February 2009) File:Riding Wood Reservoir, Holme, West Yorkshire 2009-02-06(RLH).JPG, Riding Wood Reservoir (February 2009) File:Ramsden Reservoir, Holme, West Yorkshire 2009-02-06(RLH).JPG, Ramsden Reservoir (February 2009)

References

External links

{{authority control Villages in West Yorkshire Holme Valley Geography of Holmfirth Towns and villages of the Peak District Former civil parishes in West Yorkshire