Huddersfield
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 39 ′ N , 1 ° 47 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 146,234 (as of 2001) | ||
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| ZIP code section | HD | ||
| prefix | 01484 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber | ||
| Shire county | West Yorkshire | ||
| District | Kirklees | ||
Huddersfield is a city in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in the English county of West Yorkshire . According to the 2001 census, Huddersfield had a total of 146,234 residents.
geography
Huddersfield lies at the foot of the Pennines between Oldham ( Lancashire ) and Bradford . The Huddersfield Narrow Canal connects the city with Ashton-under-Lyne .
Economy and Infrastructure
Huddersfield's history has resulted in a strong identification of Huddersfield with the textile industry . Like other places in West Yorkshire, Huddersfield has low purchasing power. The pharmaceutical industry is an important industry in and around Huddersfield.
education
In the city is the University of Huddersfield with about 24,000 students.
Sports
The local soccer club Huddersfield Town , founded on January 1, 1908, rose to the Premier League in 2017 . The club is nicknamed The Terriers and plays at John Smith's Stadium .
Huddersfield is considered the birthplace of the rugby league sport . In contrast to the amateur system of rugby union at the time, rugby league was a professional sport. It was created in 1895 from the splitting off of 21 Northern English clubs from the Rugby Football Union Association and the re-establishment of the Northern Rugby Union Association, today's Rugby Football League . The meeting of these associations took place at the George Hotel in Huddersfield. The clubs also included the Huddersfield Giants, now playing in the Super League , the highest English rugby league league. The club was seven times English champion and six times Challenge Cup winner , but the last title win in one of these competitions was more than 50 years ago.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Walter Parratt (1841–1924), organist, music teacher, church musician and composer
- Edward Bairstow (1874–1946), organist, music teacher, composer, choir director and conductor
- Harold Percival Himsworth (1905-1993), internist and diabetologist
- James Mason (1909–1984), actor
- James Chappell (1915–1976), ice hockey player
- Harold Wilson (1916–1995), politician
- James Hanson (1922-2004), entrepreneur
- Michael Kenyon (1931-2005), writer
- Derek Ibbotson (1932-2017), track and field athlete
- Karen Spärck Jones (1935–2007), computer scientist
- Peter Sutcliffe (* 1936), racing car driver and entrepreneur
- David Heywood Anderson (* 1937), lawyer and diplomat
- Patrick Stewart (born 1940), actor
- Gorden Kaye (1941–2017), actor and comedian
- Anita Lonsbrough (* 1941), swimmer
- George M. Sheldrick (* 1942), chemist
- Howard Riley (* 1943), pianist and composer
- Richard Harland (* 1947), fantasy and science fiction writer
- Trevor Cherry (1948-2020), football player
- Billy Currie (born 1950), musician and songwriter
- David Borrow (born 1952), politician
- John Whitaker (* 1955), show jumper
- Tim Bricheno (* 1963), musician and songwriter
- Ruth Lawrence (* 1971), university professor
- Lee Beachill (born 1977), squash player
- Vivek Murthy (* 1977), medical doctor
- Emily Freeman (* 1980), sprinter
- Jodie Whittaker (born 1982), actress
- Jonathan Stead (born 1983), football player
- Tom Sykes (* 1985), motorcycle racer
- Cameron Jerome (* 1986), football player
- Fraizer Campbell (born 1987), football player
- William Whitaker (* 1989), show jumper
- Reuben Noble-Lazarus (* 1993), football player
Persons connected to Huddersfield
- Reg Calvert (* 1928, † 1966), music manager and radio adviser, grew up in Huddersfield.
- Lena Headey (* 1973 on the Bermuda Islands), actress, grew up in Huddersfield.
- Iron Maiden dedicated the song Sheriff of Huddersfield on the B-side of the single Wasted Years (1986) to their Huddersfield-born manager Rod Smallwood .
- Paul Hunter (* 1978 in Leeds ), snooker player, died in Huddersfield in 2006.
- Jackie Leven (* 1950, † 2011), a Scottish singer / songwriter, mentions Huddersfield in his song ClassicNorthernDisions ("I'm in Huddersfield drinking in the slubber's arms") on the album Shining Brother, Shining Sister (2003).
- David Wagner (* 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) was the coach of Huddersfield Town from November 2015 to the beginning of 2019 and was promoted to the Premier League with this in 2017.
