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

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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