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Slaithwaite
Sign in to saveSlaithwaite (, locally ; Old Norse for "timber-fell thwaite/clearing") is a town in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is in the Colne Valley and on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, south-west of Huddersfield.
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- Locality
- Kirklees
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Slaithwaite viaduct (5th September 2010).jpg
- Dialing code
- 01484
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- Slaithwaite
- OS grid reference
- SE079141
- postal code
- HD7
- P8168
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Slaithwaite (, locally ; Old Norse for "timber-fell thwaite/clearing") is a town in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is in the Colne Valley and on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, south-west of Huddersfield.
==History== thumb|left|The parish church of St James and the Shoulder of Mutton inn thumb|left|Slaithwaite Town Hall in Lewisham Road Between 1195 and 1205, Roger de Laci, Constable of Chester, gave the manor of Slaithwaite to Henry Teutonicus (Lord Tyas). It remained in the Tyas family until the end of the 14th century when it came into the Kaye family. It eventually joined the estates of the Earl of Dartmouth, a descendant of the Kayes, and was part of the upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg. It included the township of Lingarths (Lingards) and constituted the Chapelry of Slaithwaite, in the Patronage of the Vicar of Huddersfield.
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