Lindley, West Yorkshire

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Lindley
Lindley Clock Tower
Lindley shown within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE115185
Metropolitan borough	Kirklees
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HUDDERSFIELD
Postcode district	HD3
Dialling code	01484
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
European Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Huddersfield
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°39′47″N 1°49′31″W / 53.663077, -1.825189

Lindley is a suburb of Huddersfield, within the Kirklees borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Huddersfield town centre. Lindley is the location for the Huddersfield's main hospital, the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, which is in the Central Huddersfield Primary Care Trust, a part of the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust. In 1951, the scheme for building the new Infirmary was announced, with the initial cost being five and a half million pounds. Work started in 1957 but progress was slow with the hospital's official opening being in 1967 by Huddersfield born Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister at that time.

1 History
2 Schools
3 References
4 Further reading
5 External links

[edit] History

The name for Lindley comes from the Saxon for "flax meadow" or possibly from the Germanic word lind denoting an area of linden (or lime) trees

Probably established by the Angles in the 600s as a farming community, it is mentioned in the Domesday Book under the names "Lilleia". In the reign of Edward the Confessor it was owned by Godwin, and in the reign of William the Conqueror it was being cultivated by Ulchel for Ilbert de Lacy, the Sheriff of Hertfordshire and descendant of the French noble family from Lassy. At that time, Lindley consisted of two farmsteads totalling "5 quarantens by 2 quarantens".

The Lindley Clock Tower is the most prominent landmark in Lindley ^[1], standing at the junction between Lidget Street and Daisy Lea Lane. This Art Nouveau clock tower was designed by the Manchester architect Edgar Wood in 1900 and erected by James Nield Sykes (a local JP) in 1902. The tower also features four buttress figures, four gargoyles and four friezes. The top of the tower is accessible via the doorway at its foot.

Lindley topped the bill in a survey carried out in 2006 by the Royal Bank of Scotland. By creating an algorithm factoring aspects such as desirability, return on investment and affordability, the survey results claimed to list the top 10 locations throughout the UK for first time buyers to get on the property ladder.

[edit] Schools

Lindley Junior and Infants School is located on George Street next to a busy housing estate. It caters for age group 4 to 11, with approximately 500 pupils enrolled at the school. Lindley Junior School won the School's Song's Of Praise Choir of The Year (2008). They have appeared on things such as Look North. They have previously taken first place in the local Mrs Sunderland Music Competition.