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The town is served by Mirfield railway station. Mirfield railway station serves the town of Mirfield in West Yorkshire, England.
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Geography and administration
From 1894 to 1974, Mirfield formed an urban district of the West Riding of Yorkshire, when it was merged into the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of Local government district that covered an Urbanised area The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England covering urban areas within metropolitan counties. Kirklees is a Metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It gained a parish council in 1988.
Education
There are two secondary schools in Mirfield: Mirfield Free Grammar and Sixth Form and Castle Hall School. Castle Hall School is a mixed comprehensive 11-16 school in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. Amongst the primary schools there are Battyeford, Crossley Fields (formerly Wellhouse), Old Bank and Hopton J, I and N school and Crowlees Junior and Infant School that was assessed by Ofsted as 'Grade 1 - Outstanding' in the March 2007 inspection. Crowlees Church of England (Controlled Junior and Infant School is a voluntary controlled primary co-educational day school that educates around 420 children March 2007 is the third month of the year It began on a Thursday, and ended 31 days later on a Saturday. [2]
Ecclesiastical connections
The 13th century St Mary's Church was rebuilt in 1826. However, this church itself proved too small for the growing population, and was also regarded as too mean for the growing district. A completely new church, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, was built a few yards to the northwest, on the site of the old Castle Hall, a mansion which was home to the families successively of Mirfields (sometimes spelled Mirfin), Hetons and Beaumonts. Sir George Gilbert Scott ( 13 July 1811 &ndash 27 March, 1878) was an English Architect of the Victorian Age [3] At Scott's suggestion, the tower of the earlier church, which retains some medieval work, was retained.
The College of the Resurrection was where Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, lectured from 1976 for two years. The College of the Resurrection, popularly known as Mirfield, is an Anglo-Catholic theological college of the Church of England at Mirfield, Rowan Douglas Williams, PC, DD, DCL, FBA, (born 14 June 1950 in Swansea, Wales) is an Anglican The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Archbishop Trevor Huddleston spent his last days in Mirfield here. Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston KCMG ( June 15, 1913 – April 20, 1998) was an Anglican priest one-time Archbishop
Notable people
It is the birthplace of:
- Henry Brailsford, journalist
- Brian Robinson, the first Briton ever to win a stage of the Tour de France
- Patrick Stewart, who plays Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation
- The Bronte sisters
References
- ^ "Ward Profiles (Updated September 2007) - Mirfield", Kirklees Council
- ^ "Crowlees Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School", Ofsted, 27 March 2007
- ^ Mirfield, GENUKI
External links
- Mirfield in Pictures
- Mirfield to Low Moor railway line
- Mirfield Town Council
- The Mirfield Reporter Newspaper
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