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Birkdale High School
Birkdale High School was a secondary school located in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.
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HWD Hospital Radio
HWD Hospital Radio is a hospital radio station which broadcasts to the patients and staff of Mid Yorkshire Trust hospitals in West Yorkshire, England. The station is a member of the Hospital Broadcasting Association and is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, number 227515.
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Dewsbury and District Hospital
Dewsbury and District Hospital is an acute District General Hospital in Staincliffe, West Yorkshire operated by the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.
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Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe
Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe was a doubling mill in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. It was Lancashire Cotton Corporation sole mill in West Yorkshire. A doubling mill, it doubled yarns of counts 4's to 40's. built in It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964. The mill was demolished in 1973, and the land is now housing.
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Staincliffe
Staincliffe is a cross-over district of both Batley and Dewsbury, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the name is believed to derive from staine, meaning stone and cliffe, cliff.
The area is centred on top of a hill between Dewsbury, Batley and Heckmondwike, north and east of Halifax Road (A638 road) are in Batley (WF17). The section south of Halifax Road, including Dewsbury & District Hospital has a Dewsbury (WF13) postal addresses.
Until the 19th century, the hamlet of Staincliffe consisted of Staincliffe Hall (dating from at least the 17th century) a few farms and some 18th-century cottages, many of which survive amongst the later developments. Staincliffe expanded in the 19th century with the growth of the heavy woollen industry. In 1867, a new parish church of Christ Church Staincliffe was consecrated which, along with the vicarage and church school, was designed by William Henry Crossland.
Today Staincliffe has many 19th-century houses, but also contains a couple of council housing estates built during the 1950s, as well as a mix of small shops along Halifax Road.