New Mill, Yorkshire
| New Mill | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
.JPG) New Mill and Lydgate | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE164087 |
| Location: | 53°34’31"N, 1°45’10"W |
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| Local Government | |
| Council: | Kirklees |
New Mill is a small, semi-rural village in the West Riding of Yorkshire, near the town of Holmfirth, in the parish of Holme Valley. The village had a population of 1,259 (with Fulstone) at the 2001 census.
The village is to be found two miles east of Holmfirth and six miles south of Huddersfield.[1]
The centre of the village is now on the crossroads of the Huddersfield to Sheffield A616 and Barnsley to Manchester A635 roads. There is a Post Office, one pub, one Indian restaurant, a branch of the local Co-op and two pharmacies plus other amenities all centred on the crossroads. The village centre used to be sited slightly further east near the church on Sude Hill.
As was the case all across this part of the West Riding, there were once textile mills in the village such as Moorhouse & Brook, on Greenhill Bank Road, and Bower and Roebuck, nestling in the valley just off the A616 Sheffield Road. With the decline in traditional heavy woollen industries both these mills have now closed.[2] Bower & Roebuck's Wildspur Mills provided an opportunity for property developers to convert it into flats, Moorhouse & Brook's mill has been demolished and a new housing development built on the site.[3]
Society
- New Mill Male Voice Choir, established in 1991
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about New Mill, Yorkshire) |
References
- ↑ "History of New Mill, in Kirklees and West Riding | Map and description". http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/195. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ↑ "New Mill - valley of West Yorkshire that produce fine choirs" (in en). Yorkshire Life. 15 December 2010. http://www.yorkshirelife.co.uk/out-about/places/new_mill_valley_of_west_yorkshire_that_produce_fine_choirs_1_1885864. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ↑ Hogg, Graham. "New housing at New Mill". https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2872557. Retrieved 7 March 2017.