Hartshead Moor
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Coordinates: 53°42′40″N 1°44′42″W / 53.711°N 1.745°W Hartshead Moor is a hamlet in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Brighouse, it is a mile and a half away from another village called Hartshead. It is close to the Hartshead Moor Service Station on the M62 motorway. In 1974 the service station was near the scene of a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack on a coach carrying soldiers and their children, killing nineteen. There is a plaque in the entrance to the west-bound section commemorating those who died.
To the south Hartshead Moor borders Hightown/Liversedge, to the north and west Brighouse, to the east Cleckheaton
[edit] Sport
Hartshead Moor Cricket Club are based on Highmoor Lane. The Club was established in 1853.
Willow Valley Golf is the home of the Yorkshire P.G.A Championship and voted to be amongst the best new courses in the British Isles. This golf course has 36 holes.
[edit] External links
Media related to Hartshead Moor at Wikimedia Commons
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