Spenborough

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Spenborough was a municipal borough in what is now the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It was created as an urban district of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1915 by the merger of Gomersal, Cleckheaton, Liversedge urban districts. It was expanded in 1937 by taking in the disbanded Birkenshaw and Hunsworth urban districts, as well as part of the parishes of Clifton and Hartshead from the Halifax Rural District. Attempts to incorporate neighbouring Heckmondwike which is considered to be in the Spen Valley area, were never successful.

It was granted borough status in 1955.

In 1974 it was abolished to make up part of Kirklees MB under the Local Government Act 1972. The borough was named after the River Spen. Today, Kirklees Council recognises the former Spenborough borough area, with neighbouring Heckmondwike Urban District, as the Spen Valley Locality in its structure.