South Crosland

South Crosland is a village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

Aerial view of South Crosland, Huddersfield (2006)

It was originally a chapelry in the civil parish of Almondbury, and became a separate civil parish in 1866. It became an urban district in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894. The parish and urban district was abolished under a County Review Order in 1938, being split between the county borough of Huddersfield, the Holmfirth Urban District, and the Meltham urban district.

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Coordinates: 53°36′N 1°49′W / 53.600°N 1.817°W / 53.600; -1.817


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