Huddersfield
— — a Pennine town built in honest stone.
Not only on a wall.
“Huddersfield sits in the Colne Valley on the eastern edge of the Pennines, a market town that grew rich on wool and worsted in the nineteenth century and put the money back into stone. The railway station's long classical portico still faces St George's Square. Castle Hill rises south of town, crowned by the Victoria Tower of 1899. The river Colne runs through the centre. Sheep walls climb the hills above Marsden, where the Pennine Way crosses the moor. from the studio
Huddersfield, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Huddersfield is a market town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, sitting in the Colne Valley on the eastern slopes of the Pennines roughly halfway between Leeds and Manchester. The 2021 census recorded a population of about 162,000. The town grew through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a centre of the West Riding worsted and woollen industries, and the wealth from those mills shaped its dense stone centre. The River Colne runs through the middle of town to join the Calder at Cooper Bridge. The University of Huddersfield occupies the former canal-side mill quarter.
Huddersfield railway station, opened in 1850 to a design by James Pigott Pritchett, presents one of the longest classical facades of any British station: a Corinthian portico flanked by long colonnaded wings of golden Crosland Hill stone. John Betjeman called it the most splendid station facade in England. It is Grade I listed. St George's Square in front of it was rebuilt in 2009 to open the view. The wider town centre, including the Lion Buildings and the Britannia Buildings, was largely worked in the same local sandstone by Pritchett and the Kirkgate Buildings firm.
Castle Hill rises just south of the town to 296 metres, an Iron Age hill fort topped by the Victoria Tower, a square sandstone keep raised in 1899 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The view from the tower runs north over the town to the moors and west up the Colne Valley toward Marsden, where the Pennine Way crosses Standedge. The hills above Holme and Meltham hold sheep, drystone wall, and rough grass into the Peak District National Park. The weather changes quickly. Rain comes up the valley from the west most days of the year.