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Huddersfield is a large town within the Metropolitan Borough Of Kirklees , in West Yorkshire , England , near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme . Located within the Historic County Boundaries of the West Riding Of Yorkshire , it has a total resident population of 146,234 . HISTORY There has been a settlement in the vicinity for over 4,000 years Kirklees Council Website Castle Hill . The remains of a Roman fort were unearthed in the middle of the 18th century at Slack near , a major landmark of the town, was also used as an Iron Age Hillfort . Huddersfield itself was noted in the Domesday Book as a village known as ''Oderesfelt''. Huddersfield has been known as a Market Town since Saxon times. After the status of the local Polytechnic was changed to University Of Huddersfield it is sometimes, described as a University Town. Industrial revolution Huddersfield was a centre of civil unrest during the Industrial Revolution. In a period where Europe was experiencing frequent wars, where trade had slumped and the crops had failed, many local weavers faced losing their means of livelihood due to the introduction of new machinery, which would have condemned them to poverty or even starvation. The Luddites began destroying mills and machinery in response; one of the most notorious attacks was on Cartwright - a Huddersfield mill-owner, who had a reputation for cruelty - and his Rawfords Mill. In his book ''Rebels Against the Future'', Kirkpatrick Sale describes how a large army platoon was stationed at Huddersfield to deal with Luddites; at its peak, there were around a thousand soldiers in Huddersfield and only ten thousand civilians. In response, the Luddites began to focus their attacks on nearby towns and villages, which were less well-protected; the largest act of damage that they ever did was the complete destruction of Foster's Mill at Horbury - a village, which is about ten miles (16 km) east of Huddersfield. (Sale, p.120) The draconian government campaign that eventually crushed the movement was provoked by a murder that took place in Huddersfield. William Horsfall, a mill-owner and a passionate prosecutor of Luddites, was killed in 1812.http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.htm Although the movement faded out afterwards, Parliament began to increase welfare provision for those out of work, and to introduce regulations to improve conditions in the mills. Political history Huddersfield had a strong liberal tradition up to the 1950s and this is still reflected in the large number of liberal social clubs in the town. The current Member Of Parliament (MP) for the Huddersfield Constituency is Barry Sheerman , a member of the Labour Party . Kirklees Council was the first in the UK to have a and represented the Newsome Ward . Nick, a former employee at Huddersfield Rail station, was instrumental in the creation of the protest train against the intended closure of the Settle to Carlisle rail line. He declined to stand for a second term and no longer lives in Huddersfield. He is now a resident of Filey where he is now busy with his own 'Green' railway train {Link without Title} . The far-left is well represented in Huddersfield (considering its size), with Revolution , Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Party Of England And Wales all having active groups which are involved in campaigns such as Stop The War , Save Huddersfield NHS , Huddersfield Anti-Academies Alliance and Unique Care Workers Support Group , as well as individual members of Workers Power (involved in Revolution and their group in Leeds ), the International Socialist Group and Communist Party Of Britain . There is also a local leftist fanzine called Rearguard Action which appears regularly and has a group of supporters and contributors. GOVERNANCE Civic history ]] Huddersfield was incorporated as a in West Yorkshire . Attempts by the local council to gain support for City Status were rejected by the town's population in an unofficial referendum held by the local newspaper, the Huddersfield Daily Examiner . The council did not apply for that status in either the 2000 or 2002 competitions. {Link without Title} City status is given to districts, so it would have been Kirklees rather than Huddersfield that would have been declared a city. According to the 2001 census the population of the Huddersfield urban sub-area of the West Yorkshire Urban Area was 146,234, and the population of the former area of the County Borough was 121,620. The wider South Kirklees area had a population of 216,011. GEOGRAPHY Divisions and suburbs After boundary changes in 2004, Huddersfield now covers eight of the twenty-three electoral wards for Kirklees Council. Two neighbouring wards, Colne Valley and Kirkburton are often thought of as being in Huddersfield though they are predominantly semi-rural. Huddersfield town centre is located within the Newsome ward. The eight wards that make up Huddersfield with their populations, areas and constituent suburbs are:
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