Pole Moor
| Pole Moor | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
 Pole Moor Baptist Chapel | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE065155 |
| Location: | 53°38’20"N, 1°54’7"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Huddersfield |
| Postcode: | HD3 |
| Dialling code: | 01484 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Kirklees |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Colne Valley |
Pole Moor is a hamlet between Outlane and Scammonden in the West Riding of Yorkshire, standing on a high moorland plateau between Slaithwaite and Wholestone Moors in the Pennines.
History
At the start of the Industrial Revolution the inhabitants were woollen weavers. When the Earl of Dartmouth objected to a chapel being built on his land at Slaithwaite, the Baptists built their chapel on the edge of Worts Hill in 1790. After closing in 1992,[1] the chapel, Sunday school and an adjoining late-19th century warehouse were converted into housing and are Grade II listed buildings.[2]
The Huddersfield to Rochdale turnpike road of 1806, the A640 passes over Pole Moor where there was an inn, the Royal George, and where several pack horse routes crossed, including one from Halifax to Marsden and on to Lancashire.[1]
About the village
Scammonden Reservoir in the Deanhead Valley is to the west, the M62 motorway passes to the north and to the south, 700 feet below Moorside Edge, is Slaithwaite in the Colne Valley. An old bridle way passed over the moor to Scammonden at Worts Hill to the west.
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.[3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pole Moor Baptist Chapel, Scammonden, Huddersfield, Reflections on the early history, Biblical Studies.org.uk, http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/bq/37-3_108.pdf, retrieved 28 August 2013
- ↑ National Heritage List 1274705: Pole Moor Baptist Church Sunday School and adjoining house (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Huddersfield Examiner - Nont Sarah's Retrieved 6 June 2015