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unusual facts about Castle Hill, Huddersfield



2007–08 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

Huddersfield Town fan Adam Pearson, former Hull City chairman, tabled a takeover bid for the Club during October, worth more than £3 million, but it was rejected.

2009–10 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

Huddersfield Town's 2009–10 campaign was the club's first full season under the chairmanship of Dean Hoyle, with manager Lee Clark in his first full season in charge of the team.

2013 in rugby league

1: Huddersfield, England - Four new members are formally inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame at a fundraising dinner at the John Smith's Stadium: Lewis Jones, Martin Offiah, Garry Schofield and Mick Sullivan.

Alojz Ajdič

In April 2012, Ajdič's Rhapsody for Trumpet and Orchestra was performed in Huddersfield by the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra, with guest soloist, Rebecca Robertson.

Amway Australia

Amway Australia has four business centres opened in Loganholme, Queensland; Castle Hill, New South Wales; Coburg, Victoria and Kewdale, Western Australia.

Andy Forsyth

Andrew Forsyth is an English rugby-union player, from Clayton West, Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

Aspley, West Yorkshire

Aspley is an area adjacent to the ring road around Huddersfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

Bon Spence

He was a teacher at Oakes Elementary school in Huddersfield in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the same time as was Pat Devery the Australian Huddersfield rugby league international.

Brackenhall

Brackenhall is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England located 2 miles (3 km) north of Huddersfield town centre between Fixby and Sheepridge.

Castle Hill, Bronx

Jennifer Lopez "J-Lo" (1969-) - musician and actress, raised on 2210 Blackrock Avenue Castle Hill Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2006,1st ballot.

Castle Hill, Huddersfield

Despite some difficulty raising the money required, the tower was opened by the Earl of Scarborough on 24 June 1899.

Church of St. Onuphrius, Lviv

The Basilian monastery and Greek Catholic church of St. Onuphrius in Lviv, Ukraine is located north of the Old Town, at the base of the Castle Hill.

Fartown, Huddersfield

Huddersfield's Rugby League team now known as the Huddersfield Giants played at the St. John's Ground as did the Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak

Skorzeny then brazenly led a convoy of Germany troops and four Tiger II tanks to the Vienna Gates of Castle Hill.

Hadersfild

The monotony of their lives is interrupted by the arrival of Igor(Damjan Kecojević), who has lived in Huddersfield since the beginning of the nineties, and this is the first time he's come to visit since.

Hadersfild (Serbian phonetic spelling of Huddersfield) is a Serbian film from 2007, directed by Ivan Živković, and the script was written by Uglješa Šajtinac.

Hopper Read

Despite the fact that Farnes could not help him owing to injury, Read and Stan Nichols stood alone as a pace-bowling duo and in a sensational match at Huddersfield, their sheer pace off the pitch bowled out the otherwise unbeaten Yorkshire eleven for 31 and 99, giving Essex a win by an innings and 204 runs.

Huddersfield Broad Canal

Although connection to the River Colne at Huddersfield was authorised by the Act, the upper terminus was a basin at Apsley, where Ramsden built wharves and warehouses.

The Huddersfield Broad Canal (also known by its original name, Sir John Ramsden's Canal) is a wide-locked navigable canal in Yorkshire in northern England.

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal provided a heavily-locked Western connection to wool-weaving towns of the upper Colne valley (Golcar, Linthwaite, Slaithwaite, and Marsden) and across the Pennines to Saddleworth, Stalybridge and Manchester via Standedge Tunnel.

Huddersfield Line

Owing to a large number of easily accessed and nationally acclaimed pubs along the route (particularly on the station platforms themselves at Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Stalybridge), the route has also acquired the informal title of Rail Ale Trail and featured on the BBC's Oz and James Drink to Britain.

Huddersfield Media Centre project

The Huddersfield Media Centre is a business centre and a community of digital, media and creative enterprises in the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield, England, with 121 serviced office spaces and 21 live/work studio flats located in four buildings sometimes called the Creative Quarter.

Jason Baitieri

The son of former player and coach Tas Baitieri, Jason was born in Paris, but played junior rugby league in Toulouse before returning to Castle Hill, New South Wales when he was 8 to play for the Hills District Bulls, a team in the Parramatta District Junior Rugby League competition, based in Baulkham Hills.

Joe Cutler

Joe Cutler (born 1968) is a British composer who studied music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before a scholarship at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland.

Joseph Lloyd Brereton

The Earl founded at the same time Filleigh School, near his mansion of Castle Hill, Filleigh.

Josephine Douglas

She was born in Huddersfield, England, and began her career by appearing in minor roles in several British films during the 1950s including the Hitchcock film Stage Fright (1950).

Kaye baronets

The Kaye Baronetcy, of Huddersfield in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 March 1923 for the textile manufacturer Joseph Kaye.

Ken Davy

At 21 he set up a commercial photography business in Huddersfield before joining Abbey Life in 1971.

Lee Peltier

Peltier was switched from right back to left back for Huddersfield's game against Millwall due to the usual left back Dean Heffernan being out with a dead leg.

Longroyd Bridge

The dominating feature of the area is the viaduct carrying the Sheffield—Huddersfield Penistone Line railway over the valley of the River Colne from the station at Lockwood to Springwood Junction and tunnel where the line continues under Greenhead to arrive at Huddersfield railway station.

Manor of Berry Pomeroy

The Palladian mansion Castle Hill, Filleigh was long the seat of the Earls Fortescue and is still owned by descendants of that family.

Mark George

Marcus George, rugby league footballer for Huddersfield Giants, Bradford Bulls, and Halifax

Marsh, West Yorkshire

Marsh is a suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England that is situated 1.5 km (1 mi) west of the town centre.

Michael Vella

Vella returned to Australia, and is currently working as a Personal Trainer at Fitness First, Castle Hill.

Miklós Horthy

Skorzeny then brazenly led a convoy of German troops and four Tiger II tanks to the Vienna Gates of Castle Hill, where the Hungarians had been ordered not to resist.

Netherthong

In 1772, John Wesley himself preached there, despite his well-known feelings on the people of the Huddersfield area.

Outlane

Outlane is a village near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England with a population of 710 according to the 2001 census.

Pickle Bridge Line

The Pickle Bridge Line is a disused railway route in Northern England that ran between the cities of Huddersfield and Bradford.

Rogans Hill railway line

A steam tramway opened between Parramatta and Baulkham Hills in 1902, and was extended to Castle Hill in 1910, carrying passengers and produce to and from the area.

Rugby League Heritage Centre

The Rugby League Heritage Centre is located in the basement of the George Hotel, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

Shaun Lunt

Lunt is a former Castleford & Workington Town player, who joined Huddersfield in time for the 2009 Super League season.

Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association

Today, the County FA is responsible for the administration, control, promotion and development of grass-roots football within Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley, Worksop and Huddersfield.

Simon Baldry

The player is also a former pupil of the old Deighton High School, which was based in Huddersfield and has now closed.

Song Festival

Songfestival, also called song07 was a cancelled two day music festival due to take place for the first time in 2007 near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.

Syd Hartley

Sydney "Syd" Hartley (born Gomersal, 22 January 1914, died Huddersfield, May 1987) was an English professional association football player.He joined Huddersfield Town in 1932 before moving to Grimsby Town the next season.

Turnbridge

Turnbridge is the area to the east of Huddersfield town centre ring road in West Yorkshire, England.

William Sandford

Exhausted by his repeated business failures, Sandford retired to Darling Point in 1908, later moving to an orchard in Castle Hill and then Eastwood.

Yorkshire Evening Post

Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield as well.

Yorkshire Tiger

With the purchase of both Stagecoach and K-Line, Centrebus Holdings became the second largest bus operator in Huddersfield after First West Yorkshire.


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