Heavy Woollen District

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A woollen mill in Dewsbury, now converted to flats but retaining as a feature the mill name.
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A woollen mill in Dewsbury, now converted to flats but retaining as a feature the mill name.

The Heavy Woollen District is so-called because of the nature of the cloth manufactured in the towns of a certain area of West Yorkshire. Batley and Dewsbury are viewed as the core of the area. Heckmondwike, Liversedge, Gomersal, Gildersome, Birkenshaw, Mirfield, Cleckheaton, Morley, Tingley, East Ardsley, Ossett and Horbury. would normally also be included. The broadest definition would include Brighouse, Huddersfield and Wakefield. There is still a Heavy Woollen District cricket league, and a team that represents the district as a whole.

It was one of the key textile centres in Yorkshire, famed for its production of "shoddy and mungo" (cloth derived from left over cotton and wool). Of course the wool is a thing of the past, but the Heavy Woollen District name has stuck.

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