Holme Valley

Civil parish in West Yorkshire, England

Human settlement in England

List of places: UK; England; Yorkshire

53°35′N 01°48′W / 53.583°N 1.800°W / 53.583; -1.800

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.^[1]^[2] Its administrative centre is in Holmfirth. Other sizeable settlements in the parish include, Brockholes, Honley and New Mill. It is named from the River Holme that runs through the parish.

The parish is the successor to the Holmfirth urban district. An urban district covering Holmfirth was created in 1894 by the Local Government Act 1894 and then in 1938, under a County Review Order, absorbed parts of the Holme, Honley, New Mill, South Crosland and Thurstonland and Farnley Tyas urban districts, keeping the name. Under the Local Government Act 1972, the Holmfirth urban district was abolished on 1 April 1974, but its area was retained as a single civil parish with a parish council. On 1 April 1976 the parish was renamed from "Holmfirth" to "Holme Valley".^[3]

References

^ "Kirklees ward population(Holme Valley North) 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
^ "Kirklees ward population (Holme Valley South) 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
^ "Huddersfield Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 11 August 2023.