Huddersfield is a large market town in the metropolitan borough of
Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It had 162,949 residents at the
2011 census. It sits close to the Pennines, 14 miles (23 km) southwest
of Leeds, 12 miles (19 km) west of Wakefield, 23 miles (37 km)
northwest of Sheffield and 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Manchester.
It hosts the administrative centre of its borough. The south of the
town has the discharge of the Holme into the similar-size River Colne,
West Yorkshire. These were tapped for steam turbines and textile
treatment in the large weaving sheds which are associated with an
economic boom in the early part of the Industrial Revolution. The town
is the birth place of rugby league, Labour Prime Minister Harold
Wilson and film star James Mason. The current Doctor Who, Jodie
Whittaker, was born in Skelmanthorpe. The town is home to: in rugby
league Huddersfield Giants, who play in the Super League; and in
football Huddersfield Town who usually play in the Championship.[a] It
further hosts the University of Huddersfield and three colleges:
Greenhead College, Kirklees College and Huddersfield New College.It
has much neoclassical Victorian architecture centrally, among which
its railway station which is in the rarest category of statutory
recognition and protection (a Grade I listed building) â€" described
by John Betjeman as "the most splendid station façade in England",
second only to St Pancras, London. Fronting St George's Square, it was
renovated for £4 million and accordingly won the Europa Nostra award
for architecture.It gained its own parliamentary representation in
1832. It is, like most of West and South Yorkshire in the historic
(essentially defunct) division of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The
town's population in 1961 had reached 130,652. Huddersfield Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter