6-708: The Holme of the Holme Valley , West Yorkshire , England is a tributary of the River Colne, West Yorkshire . The source is via Digley Reservoir, fed firstly by the run-off from Brownhill Reservoir, then by Dobbs Dike. Banks along the upper valley are mostly urbanised and are in the Holme Valley civil parish . From Digley Reservoir, the river flows north-east through Holmbridge and Holmfirth . It flows NNE to Thongsbridge and Brockholes then north to reach Honley , Berry Brow and Lockwood . It wends northwards and joins
12-620: A County Review Order , absorbed parts of the Holme , Honley, New Mill, South Crosland and Thurstonland and Farnley Tyas urban districts, keeping the name. Under the Local Government Act 1972 , the Holmfirth urban district was abolished on 1 April 1974, but its area was retained as a single civil parish with a parish council. On 1 April 1976 the parish was renamed from "Holmfirth" to "Holme Valley". This West Yorkshire location article
18-517: The Colne (one of five rivers of that name) just south of Huddersfield town centre at Folly Hall. The Environment Agency has a gauging station at Queen's Mill in Huddersfield where the record average monthly levels are 0.25 metres (0.82 ft), versus 1.2 metres (3.9 ft). The record high is 2.5 metres (8.2 ft), in 2011. The river was prone to flooding, the earliest recorded in 1738. In 1840
24-506: The 2011 Census. Its administrative centre is in Holmfirth . Other sizeable settlements in the parish include, Brockholes , Honley and New Mill . It is named from the River Holme that runs through the parish. The parish is the successor to the Holmfirth urban district . An urban district covering Holmfirth was created in 1894 by the Local Government Act 1894 and then in 1938, under
30-523: The dam of Bilberry Reservoir was built over a stream, but the work had not been done properly and the stream not correctly redirected. Thus in February 1852, the reservoir broke its confines and flooded the valley as far as Holmfirth. It caused 81 deaths and the destruction of many homes and businesses. The top of the valley is surrounded by the high, wooded hills on their lower slopes only, of Holme Moss , Harden Moss and Cartworth Moor. The underlying bedrock
36-465: Was laid down in the late Carboniferous period and is primarily of Millstone Grit with some sandstone interspersed with thin coal seams. Holme Valley Holme Valley , formerly Holmfirth is a large civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire , England. It has a population of 25,049 (2001 census), increasing to 34,680 for the two wards in
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