Cowlersley

Cowlersley
Cowlersley
	Manchester Road, Cowersley (2008)
	Cowlersley Location within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE108153
Metropolitan borough	Kirklees;
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HUDDERSFIELD
Postcode district	HD4
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Colne Valley;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°38′05″N 1°50′12″W / 53.6347°N 1.8366°W

Cowlersley is a district 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Milnsbridge and Linthwaite and south of the A62 and the River Colne.^[1] The name Cowlersley means 'a charcoal burner's wood' and was first recorded in 1226.^[2]

The district has a primary school, Woodside Green, which was inspected by Ofsted in 2022 and listed as "Good".

Its main claim to fame is that the former British prime minister Harold Wilson grew up in Cowlersley,^[3] at 4 Warneford Road.

References

^ "288" (Map). Bradford & Huddersfield. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319244852.
^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 126. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
^ Sutcliffe, Robert (18 October 2014). "Power house: 50 years ago this week Huddersfield's Harold Wilson became Prime Minister - but who lives in his childhood Cowlersley home today?". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 7 March 2017.

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