Kirklees

Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of , England. The borough comprises the ten towns of , , , , , , , , and .
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  • Type: metropolitan borough with 438,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England
  • Also known as: Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stocksmoor railway station and Brockholes railway station.

Railway station
serves the village of near in , England. The station is 6.25 miles from on the Penistone Line operated by Northern.

Railway station
serves the village of , near in . It lies 4.25 miles away from on the Penistone Line operated by Northern Trains.

Theater building
is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Holmfirth and New Mill.

is a small rural town in , about 5 miles south of . Pronounced "Home-firth", it is at the heart of the beautiful Holme Valley.

Village
is a village in the civil parish of , in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, in , England, near the town of .

Village
is a village 2 miles south-east of town centre in the Kirklees district, of , England. The population of in 2001 was 7,368 increasing to 18,346 at the 2011 census. is situated 3½ miles north of Kirklees.

Kirklees

Latitude
53.5833° or 53° 35′ north
Longitude
-1.75° or 1° 45′ west
Population
438,000
Elevation
784 feet (239 metres)
Abbreviation
“KIR”
Open location code
9C5WH7M2+82
Geo­Names ID
3333161
Wiki­data ID
Q918975
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Kirklees” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: Կիրկլիս
  • Azerbaijani: Kirklis
  • Belarusian: бора Кіркліс
  • Belarusian: Кіркліс (бора)
  • Belarusian: Кіркліс
  • Breton: Kirklees
  • Bulgarian: Кърклийс
  • Cebuano: Kirklees
  • Chinese: Kirklees
  • Chinese: 卻利士
  • Chinese: 柯克利斯
  • Danish: Kirklees
  • Dutch: Kirklees
  • Esperanto: Kirklees
  • Finnish: Kirklees
  • French: Kirklees
  • German: Kirklees
  • Greek: Κέρκλις
  • Hungarian: Kirklees
  • Indonesian: Kirklees
  • Irish: Kirklees
  • Italian: Kirklees
  • Japanese: カークリース
  • Japanese: カークリーズ
  • Korean: 커클리스
  • Latvian: Kērklīsa
  • Min Nan Chinese: Kirklees
  • Northern Frisian: Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kirklees
  • Norwegian: Kirklees
  • Persian: کیرکلیس
  • Polish: Kirklees
  • Romanian: Kirklees
  • Russian: Kirklees
  • Russian: Керклис
  • Russian: Кирклис
  • Slovenian: Kirklees
  • Spanish: Kirklees
  • Swedish: Kirklees
  • Tamil: கிர்க்லீசு
  • Ukrainian: Кірклісс
  • Urdu: کرکلیز
  • Welsh: Kirklees
  • Kirklees

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