Barnside

Barnside
Barnside
	Barnside hamlet, Hepworth
	Barnside Location within West Yorkshire
Metropolitan borough	Kirklees;
District	West Yorkshire;
Shire county	Yorkshire;
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Holmfirth
Postcode district	HD9
Dialling code	01484
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Colne Valley;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°33′01″N 1°44′35″W / 53.550233°N 1.743017°W

Barnside is a hamlet on Barnside Lane approximately 3/4 mile to the southeast of Hepworth in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the civic parish of Holme Valley and the metropolitan borough of Kirklees.

History[edit]

In 1822 Thomas Langdale recorded that Barnside-Wood in the township of Hepworth comprised four farm houses.^[1]

Barnside Colliery, approximately 1/2 mile from the current hamlet operated from c. 1855–c. 1887.^[2]

^ Langdale, Thomas (1822). A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire. Northallerton, Ripon & London: J. Langdale & T. Langdale.
^ "Barnside Colliery – Hepworth, West Yorkshire" (PDF). www.aditnow.co.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2013.

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