Golcar
Golcar is a village on a hillside crest above the Colne Valley in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, 3 miles west of Huddersfield, and just north of the River Colne and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.Places of Interest
Highlights include Colne Valley Museum and Scapegoat Hill Baptist Church.
Colne Valley Museum
Museum
The Colne Valley Museum is in the Colne Valley at Golcar, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The museum consists of four converted 19th-century weavers' cottages.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scapegoat Hill and Nettleton Hill.
Scapegoat Hill
Village
Scapegoat Hill is a small village 5 miles west of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is near to the villages of Slaithwaite and Golcar. The village together with nearby Bolster Moor has a population of 1,246.
Nettleton Hill
Hamlet
Nettleton Hill is a hamlet in the Kirklees district in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is situated west of the town of Huddersfield, north of Scapegoat Hill and south of Pighill Wood.
Longwood
Village
Longwood is a village and suburb of the town of Huddersfield in the English county of West Yorkshire. It is situated some 2.5 miles west of Huddersfield town centre, in the valley of the Longwood Brook, a tributary of the River Colne.
Golcar
- Type: Village with 6,900 residents
- Description: village in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Categories: suburb, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Meltham, Kirklees, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.63998° or 53° 38′ 24″ north
Longitude
-1.85594° or 1° 51′ 21″ west
Population
6,900
Elevation
719 feet (219 metres)
Open location code
9C5WJ4QV+XJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Golcar” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “গোলকার”
- Chinese: “告尔卡”
- Chinese: “告爾卡”
- Dutch: “Golcar”
- French: “Golcar”
- German: “Golcar”
- Gujarati: “ગોલકર”
- Japanese: “ゴルカー”
- Kannada: “ಗೋಲ್ಕಾರ್”
- Korean: “골카”
- Lithuanian: “Golkaras”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guðlācerg”
- Polish: “Golcar”
- Portuguese: “Golcar”
- Russian: “Голкар”
- Spanish: “Golcar”
- Swedish: “Golcar”
- Tamil: “கோல்கார்”
- Telugu: “గోల్కర్”
- Urdu: “جولکار”
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