Lindley, West Yorkshire

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 53.663077
longitude= -1.825189
map_type= West Yorkshire
official_name= Lindley
population =
metropolitan_borough= Kirklees
metropolitan_county= West Yorkshire
region= Yorkshire and the Humber
constituency_westminster= Huddersfield
post_town= HUDDERSFIELD
postcode_district = HD3
postcode_area= HD
dial_code= 01484
os_grid_reference= SE115185
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static_image_caption=Lindley Clock Tower Lindley is a suburb of Huddersfield, within the Kirklees borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately convert|2|mi|km|1 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.

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 [ [http://manchesterhistory.net/edgarwood/Clock/clock.html| Lindley Clock Tower] ] , 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.

chools

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.

References

Further reading

* "The Story of Huddersfield" by Roy Brook (1968), ISBN 0261-61983-7

External links

* [http://www.virtualhuddersfield.com Virtual Huddersfield]