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unusual facts about Harden, West Yorkshire


William Ferrand

He dropped the name of Busfeild in 1854 after succeeded to his mother's estate, which included Harden Grange and Bingley St Ives.


Alan Kernaghan

Born in Otley, West Yorkshire, England, at the age of four, he moved with his family to Bangor, County Down.

All Saints' Church, Harewood

All Saints' Church, Harewood is a 15th-century redundant church standing in the park of Harewood House, the seat of the Earls of Harewood, near the village of Harewood, West Yorkshire, England.

Aspley, West Yorkshire

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

Bingley Grammar School

Bingley Grammar School (BGS) is a comprehensive community school for both boys and girls from the ages of 11–18 and is located on the outskirts of Bingley, West Yorkshire, England.

Brackenhall

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

Byram cum Sutton

The River Aire runs to the south of the parish, and the town of Knottingley is the other side of the river in West Yorkshire.

Cecil M. Harden

Harden was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959).

Harden was the only Republican woman to have represented the state of Indiana in the U.S. Congress until Susan Brooks and Jackie Walorski took seat in the 113th United States Congress in January 2013.

Chloe Procter

Despite being American, Chloe is actually from Leeds in West Yorkshire and attends her local high school, Bruntcliffe in Morley, Leeds.

Craven and District Football League

The league is essentially based on Craven and so includes several teams from the main Craven centres such as Skipton, Settle, Cross Hills and Cononley, but its catchment extends into nearby districts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire with, for example, teams from Bradford, Colne, Ilkley, Keighley and Pendle also taking part.

Dave Pybus

Dave Pybus (born 4 June 1970 in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, England) is an extreme metal musician, best known as the former bass player of Cradle of Filth.

Diecast

Die casting, the casting process where liquids are introduced into a mold and allowed to harden

Duane Harden

As a songwriter, Harden has written "Believe" for Ministers De La Funk with Jocelyn Brown on vocals, "Stop Playing With My Mind" for Barbara Tucker, and "Pow Pow Pow" for Lenny Fontana with Darryl D'Bonneau on vocals, all between 1999 and 2000.

Elland Upper Edge

Elland Upper Edge is a village on the B6114 road, near the town of Elland, in the Calderdale District, in the English county of West Yorkshire.

Fenton, Murray and Jackson

Fenton, Murray and Jackson was an engineering company at the Round Foundry off Water Lane in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Ferry Fryston

Ferry Fryston is a suburb of the town of Castleford in West Yorkshire, England.

Gary Sykes

Educated at Birkdale High School he is based in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and is a former British super featherweight champion.

Geoffrey Appleyard

Appleyard was born in Bramley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, the son of John Ernest Appleyard, a successful motor engineer, and Mary Elizabeth Northrop.

Geoffrey Lofthouse, Baron Lofthouse of Pontefract

He was born in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, the son of Ernest Lofthouse, a farm labourer in Micklefield, and Emma (née Fellows).

Happy slapping

She had pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court in February 2008 to aiding and abetting the manslaughter of Gavin Waterhouse, 29, from Keighley, West Yorkshire.

Harewood speed Hillclimb

Harewood speed Hillclimb (the form with italics and a lower-case s is used officially) is a hillclimb near the village of Harewood, West Yorkshire, England.

Henry Eric Harden

Lance-Corporal Harden's final resting place is in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Nederweert, Limburg, the Netherlands.

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.

Keighley Festival

The Keighley Festival is a festival held in the town of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England during a two-week period in June or July each year.

Ken Barker

Ken Barker was a born in Murrumburrah, New South Wales in 1948 and grew up in Rye Park, a town of just 287 people near Harden in rural NSW.

Leeds Trinity University

Leeds Trinity University is a university in the town of Horsforth, West Yorkshire, England, which offers foundation and undergraduate degrees, as well as postgraduate qualifications.

Leo Walmsley

He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley in the county of West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of present-day North Yorkshire, where he was schooled at the old Wesleyan chapel.

Lizzie Armitstead

Armitstead was born in the market town of Otley in West Yorkshire, where she attended Prince Henry's Grammar School, a state comprehensive school.

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.

Mike Harden

In a game during the 1988 season, Harden intercepted a ball thrown by Quarterback Dave Krieg.

Mountains and hills of England

The Yorkshire Dales end at Skipton, and a short distance to the south is a range of moors that rises up between the urban cores of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.

New South Wales D55 class locomotive

The members of this class spent most of their days attached to depots at Enfield, Goulburn, Harden, Junee and Cowra operating on the Illawarra and Main South lines.

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!

Locations used for outdoor filming of the series were in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire and Elvington, North Yorkshire, while indoor filming was done at Yorkshire Television Studios, "Kirkstall Road, Leeds" themselves.

Old St Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe

Old St Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe, is a former church in the village of Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire, England, of which only the tower remains.

Outlane

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

Rugby League Heritage Centre

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

Scapegoat Hill

Scapegoat Hill is a small village 5 miles (8 km) west of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

Shelley railway station

Shelley railway station forms the western terminus of the Kirklees Light Railway and serves the village of Shelley, West Yorkshire.

Shin Dong-hyuk

Shin, sometimes accompanied by Harden, has given talks to audiences around the world about his life in Kaechon internment camp (Kwalliso No. 14) and about the totalitarian North Korean regime to raise awareness of the situation in North Korean internment and concentration camps and North Korea.

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.

The 1 in 12 Club

The 1 in 12 Club refers to both a members' club and the building in which it is based, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

Thornhill Lees

Thornhill Lees is a district of Dewsbury, which is a town within the borough of Kirklees in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

Tim Marshall

Marshall was educated at Prince Henry's Grammar School, a former state grammar school in the market town of Otley, in Leeds,West Yorkshire.

Turnbridge

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

White Wells

White Wells is a spa bath situated on Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire, England.

Wilf Lunn

Wilfred Makepeace Lunn (b. 1942, Rastrick, West Yorkshire, England) is an English inventor, prop-maker and TV presenter.


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