Holmfield is an area of Halifax in West Yorkshire , England, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town centre.
7-461: Early maps show no village in the area. Holmfield was developed in the 19th century after a mill, known as Holme Field Mill, was built on Strines Beck in the township of Ovenden , in the ancient parish of Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire . The mill was a short distance south of the village of Holdsworth . In 1878 Holmfield railway station was opened to serve the area. St Andrew's Church
14-457: A chapelry , manor , or any other minor area of local administration. The township is distinguished from the following: 'Township' is, however, sometimes used loosely for any of the above. In many areas of England, the basic unit of civil administration was the parish , generally identical with the ecclesiastical parish . However, in some cases, particularly in Northern England , there
21-499: A rate could lawfully be levied. Most townships disappeared before 1866 either being included into adjacent civil parishes or gaining their own separate civil parish status. The use of the term 'township' persisted and has recently been revived as a name for subdivisions of boroughs in northern England. For example, the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale has township committees , and the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan divides
28-571: The borough into ten townships, which each have a township forum. Wirral is divided into forty-four, for planning purposes. In Sheffield, Mosborough ward, which includes the districts of Halfway, Mosborough village, Waterthorpe, and Westfield, is one of the 28 electoral wards in the City of Sheffield. It is located in the eastern part of the city and is one of the wards that make up the Sheffield Attercliffe parliamentary constituency . The area
35-402: The whole to be large, containing several townships. However, south of this line, parishes tended to contain single townships. A township appointed overseers of the poor and surveyors of highways in the same way as a parish and they financed their obligations by levying a rate, in the same way as parish officials. The original definition of a civil parish was any place in respect of which
42-409: Was a lesser unit called a township, being a subdivision of a parish. This could happen for several reasons: The local historian Dorothy Silvester has identified a "parish line", which divided northern from southern counties of England and Wales. In Denbighshire , Shropshire , Staffordshire , Derbyshire , the West Riding and North Riding of Yorkshire , and north of this line, parishes tended on
49-548: Was built in 1897. Trinity Academy is located in Holmfield. [REDACTED] Media related to Holmfield, West Yorkshire at Wikimedia Commons 53°45′04″N 1°52′33″W / 53.7510°N 1.8757°W / 53.7510; -1.8757 Township (England) In England , a township (Latin: villa ) is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church. A township may or may not be coterminous with
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