Staincliffe

Staincliffe is a district of Batley, West Yorkshire, England.

The area is centred on top of a hill between Dewsbury, Batley and Heckmondwike, and areas south of Halifax Road, including Dewsbury & District Hospital have Dewsbury postal addresses.

Staincliffe is believed to derive from staine, meaning stone and cliffe, cliff; stonecliff.

Until the nineteenth century, the hamlet of Staincliffe consisted of Staincliffe Hall (dating from at least the seventeenth century) a few farms and some eighteenth century cottages, many of which survive amongst the later developments. Staincliffe expanded in the nineteenth century with the growth of the heavy woollen industry. In 1867, a new parish church of [http://www.staincliffe.co.uk Christ Church Staincliffe] was consecrated which, along with the Vicarage and Church School, was designed by William Henry Crossland.

Today Staincliffe has many nineteenth century houses, but also contains a couple of council housing estates built during the 1950s, as well as a mix of small shops along Halifax Road.