New Mill
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New Mill, West Yorkshire, is a small, semi-rural village near the town of Holmfirth. It is in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees and the parish of Holme Valley. The village has a population of 1,259 (with Fulstone 2001 census).
The new centre of the village is on the cross-roads of the Huddersfield - Sheffield A616 and Barnsley - Manchester A635 roads. The village centre used to be sited slightly further east near the church on Sude Hill.
Unsurprisingly, there were textile mills in the village, such as Moorhouse & Brookes, on Greenhill Bank Road, which has now closed down, and Bower and Roebuck, nestling in the valley, just off the A616 Penistone Road. With the decline in traditional heavy woollen industries. They now provide opportunities for property developers to refurbish and sell as flats.
The village is also home to the New Mill Male Voice Choir, which was established in 1991.
New Mill was created an urban district of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1895, and covered the parishes of Fulstone, Hepworth and Scholes. The urban district was abolished in 1938 by a County Review Order which saw the district and parishes merged into the urban district and parish of Holmfirth, which has been since included in Kirklees, West Yorkshire and renamed Holme Valley.
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