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Connexion erected a chapel in Northgate; the Society was short-lived but the building survives to this day - as a private house. The Primitive Methodists built their first chapel in Horbury in 1841 in High Street, and four years later the Wesleyans built a chapel on the adjoining plot to replace the one in Cluntergate. The Free Methodists built a small chapel in Queen Street in 1857 which served them until 1900, when they built a larger one at the bottom of Bank Street which was bought by Nettleton's in 1958.
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Church of England School was founded in 1849 close to the church. It was replaced by the present school in the early 1980s. In September 2010 St Peter's Junior School amalgamated with Clifton Infant School to form a new primary school. A new building is proposed to be built on the current St Peter's site with a completion date of September 2012.
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Horbury Council School catering for all age groups on Northfield Lane was opened in 1913 becoming Horbury County Secondary Modern in 1952. The infant school remained on the site and the junior school moved to the Wesleyan School at Horbury Junction. In 1962 secondary pupils moved to a new school. The
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Horbury Town School on Tithe Barn Street was enlarged in 1789 but it is not known when it was built. By 1870 there were 113 pupils paying fees of 3d to 6d weekly. It closed in 1886. The "Gaskell School" was built on New Road in 1842 by Daniel Gaskell of Lupset Hall. It was used until 1887. St Peter's
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society was established in Horbury in about 1746, meeting for worship in a private house in Cluntergate. In 1765 the congregation built a chapel seating perhaps 200, also in Cluntergate, adjacent to the house which later became the Working Men's Club. In 1824 a branch of Methodism called the New
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in the 15th century. Money for its upkeep was left in local wills dated 1404 and 1492, a custom that continued into the 16th century. A stone-arched bridge that replaced the wooden structure in the 17th century lasted until it partly collapsed in 1918. A new bridge was completed in 1930 and was
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In 1958, many years after Methodist Union, the congregations of the former Wesleyan and Primitive churches amalgamated using the 1884 Wesleyan building for worship and the Primitive's Sunday school for other activities. The congregation of the Horbury Junction chapel joined them in 1969.
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foundation. It celebrated its centenary in 2005 with the making of a community tapestry, which now hangs in the library. Horbury is policed by the West Yorkshire Police force from Ossett Police Station and is within the DA, Wakefield division, which covers the whole district. The
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in 1106 and was held by them until 1359. Sir Robert de Horbiry and Sir John de Horbiry were stewards to the Earl de Warenne, who granted Sir John the village of Horbury and its lands for life. After the death of Sir John de Horbury in 1306, it became one of the constituent
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Charles Roberts (1831–1892) who described himself as a joiner, moved the Buffer and Wagon Works he had established on Ings Road, Wakefield to a site at Horbury Junction in 1873. Between 1901 and 1956 the company built 110,000 railway wagons of varying types and by 1945
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was established at about this time. Slazenger had four factories which produced sports equipment. Since the factories closed the name is preserved in Slazengers Sports and Social Club, which has facilities and floodlit grounds for many different sporting activities.
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The Primitive Methodists built a larger chapel in 1875 on the site of their 1841 building, and the Wesleyans similarly replaced their 1845 chapel in 1884. The Wesleyans had established a mission in Horbury Junction in 1878 and built a chapel there in 1887.
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In 2012 the 1884 building, having been found to be unsafe, was demolished and a new church was constructed further back from the High Street and connected to the old Sunday School. The new building was formally opened on 10 September 2016.
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The foundation of St John's Church at Horbury Bridge was in a mission meeting in a room in what is now the hairdressers in 1864. Funds were raised and the church was built with stone from Horbury Quarry in 1884. The curate,
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poisoning while on holiday in Corfu in October 2006. Their deaths resulted in changes to health and safety policies in the travel industry. A memorial garden was opened at Horbury Primary School, which they both attended.
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corps' former headquarters on Peel Street is now disused, the congregation moving to the Leeds Road, Gawthorpe, Ossett premises. The former Tithe Barn Christian Centre, Westfield Road, is now similarly disused.
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and Horbury Junction, named after the railway junction. It covers an area of 1,162 acres (470 ha). The River Calder flows generally west to east in a wide valley across the south of the town alongside the
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Northfield Lane school became Horbury County Junior School and Horbury County Infant School. After a fire in 2000 and a £1m upgrade the schools amalgamated, becoming Horbury Primary School in 2002.
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steam engines were installed at Race's Mill in Dudfleet and Foster's Mill on Engine Lane in 1795. Resistance to the implementation of new textile machinery and the factory system was shown when
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had a population of 10,002. At the 2011 census the population was 15,032. Old industries include woollens, engineering and building wagons for the railways. Horbury forms part of the
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was commissioned by the Urban District Council; its foundation stone was laid by Joshua Harrop on 30 July 1902 and it was built by Henry Fallas & Sons of Horbury.
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to 1474. Other old buildings include the tithe barn. The land in Horbury was divided into three great fields, Northfield, Southfield and Westfield, and remains of
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The oldest surviving house in the town is Horbury Hall in Church Street, built by Ralph Amyas, deputy steward of the Manor of Wakefield. It has been dated by
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was born in Horbury in 1723. His nephew bought Sunroyd House in 1789 and renamed it "Carr Lodge". Horbury Bridge is known as the home of
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The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society
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Proposals were made for a railway through Horbury in the 1830s and an Act of Parliament was passed for the
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trains, the plant closed in 2005; the engineering company Eddison & Wanless now occupies the site.
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from Wakefield Fire Station. Hospital services are provided by the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
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road bypasses the town to the south of the town centre with a branch road to Horbury Junction. The
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the firm was among the first to employ women who were employed to forge shell covers. During the
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repaired in 1991 at a cost of £2 million. Horbury Bridge was flooded after heavy rain in 1946.
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chapel with a nave and tower that stood until it was replaced by the present church in 1790.
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on Green Lane of 1853 and Millfield Road at Horbury Junction opened in 1927. All are closed.
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to the north. The M1 motorway passes to the east of the town with the nearest access at J40
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Horbury encompasses the neighbourhoods of Horbury Bridge, named after the crossing of the
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In 2008 Horbury had a largely white population compared with Yorkshire and the Humber.
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in Wakefield, from before the time of the Domesday Book. The chapel was replaced by a
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which is a free local weekly paper printed and distributed throughout the town and
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to the east of the town is accessed at junctions 39 at Durkar and 40 at Ossett.
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Horbury Library on Westfield Road was built in 1905 with a donation from the
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of 1834, Horbury became one of the 17 constituent parishes of the Wakefield
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with a Waste Water Treatment Works for the Horbury area on Dudfleet Lane.
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A wooden bridge spanned the River Calder on the road from Wakefield to
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Wool spinning and cloth manufacture were important originally as
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Proud Village: A History of Horbury in the County of Yorkshire
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Albion Mills and Millfield Mills were built in the 1870s.
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connects Horbury with Wakefield, Dewsbury, Ossett, and
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Local news and television programmes are provided by
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of strip cultivation are visible in Carr Lodge Park.
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The Manor of Wakefield was given by the crown to the
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Wakefield its History and People Vol.1&2 3rd Edn
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Horbury Town Hall
Horbury is located in West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE294182
Metropolitan borough
City of Wakefield
Metropolitan county
West Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and the Humber
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
WF4
Dialling code
Police
West Yorkshire
Fire
West Yorkshire
Ambulance
Yorkshire
UK Parliament
Ossett and Denby Dale
UK
England
Yorkshire

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