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Aspley, Huddersfield
Aspley is an area adjacent to the ring road around Huddersfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It comprises a mixture of independent shops, commercial units, a small retail park, houses, student accommodation and sections of the University of Huddersfield and Kirklees Council offices, pubs and fast food outlets. It is known locally as Aspley Wharf. There is a small narrowboat marina adjacent to the Huddersfield Broad Canal and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. known as Aspley Basin.
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St Paul's Street drill hall, Huddersfield
The St Paul's Street drill hall is a military installation in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. It is a Grade II listed building.
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University of Huddersfield
The University of Huddersfield is a public research university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has been a University since 1992, but has its origins in a series of institutions dating back to the 19th century. It has made teaching quality a particular focus of its activities, winning the inaugural Higher Education Academy Global Teaching Excellence Award in 2017, and achieving a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold Award, in 2017 and 2023. The university has also put an increasing focus on research quality, and as of 2022 more than three quarters of its academic staff hold a doctorate, the third highest rate in England.
Its chancellor George W. Buckley, a graduate of the university and a former CEO of 3M, was appointed in 2020.
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Huddersfield East
Huddersfield East was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1983.
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Moldgreen
Moldgreen is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in England, approximately one mile (1.5 km) east of the town centre between Dalton and Aspley.
The main Wakefield Road, the A629, is the main thoroughfare through the district.
The area was originally known as "Mold Green" or "Mould Green" and was a hamlet in the Kirkheaton parish and in the Dalton township.