Fenay Bridge and Lepton railway station served the villages of Lepton and Fenay Bridge, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1867 to 1965 on the Kirkburton Branch.
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Waterloo is a suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is 2 miles to the east of Huddersfield Town Centre. It is the part of Dalton named after the former Waterloo public house and consists mostly of housing with a central shopping area made up of independent shops, a large Morrisons Supermarket, and a petrol station located on Penistone Road.
Waterloo's population is around 7,000 and it is situated between Dalton and Almondbury.
The area is home to a number of businesses, including Forteq UK, Principle Group, Hyder Living and Metal Closures.
Huddersfield R.U.F.C. played at Waterloo until leaving for a new ground at Lockwood Park in 1997.
Notable people like Benjamin Coates, High Priest of Xenu in the British sect of Scientology, reside within waterloo.
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Woodsome Hall is a 16th-century country house in the parish of Almondbury, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is now the clubhouse of Woodsome Hall Golf Club and a Grade I listed building.
Built in the Elizabethan era as a hall house, Woodsome evolved in stages in the possession of several generations of the local Kaye family. The main hall range is built in two storeys with gabled forward projecting wings and a two storey gabled porch. At the rear of each end are L-shaped extensions forming a courtyard with a fountain.
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Gawthorpe, also known as Gawthorp, is a hamlet in the Kirklees district, in the English county of West Yorkshire, about 4 miles east of Huddersfield. The nearest major road is the A642 which passes about 0.3 miles south of the place. In the 19th century Gawthorpe was listed variously as a village or a hamlet in Lepton township, part of the parish of Kirkheaton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Coal was mined at Gawthorpe around the middle of the 19th century.
It was claimed that Chief Justice Gascoigne was born here, however, he was a native of the abandoned estate of Gawthorpe Hall near Harewood House.
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King James's School is a coeducational secondary school located in Almondbury in the English county of West Yorkshire.
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Hill View Academy is a 3–11 mixed primary school with academy status in Almondbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Impact Education Multi Academy Trust.
History
The station was opened as Fenay Bridge on 7 October 1867 by the London and North Western Railway. Its name was changed to Fenay Bridge and Lepton on 1 September 1897. It closed to passengers on 28 July 1930 but remained open for goods until 5 April 1965. The track was lifted in 1966.