Pole Moor

Pole Moor
Pole Moor
	Pole Moor Baptist Chapel
	Pole Moor Location within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE065155
Metropolitan borough	Kirklees;
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HUDDERSFIELD
Postcode district	HD3
Dialling code	01484
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Colne Valley;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°38′20″N 1°54′07″W / 53.639°N 1.902°W

Pole Moor is a hamlet between Outlane and Scammonden in Kirklees, England. It is situated on a high moorland plateau between Slaithwaite and Wholestone Moors in the South Pennines.

History

At the start of the Industrial Revolution the inhabitants were woollen weavers. When the Earl of Dartmouth objected to a chapel being built on his land at Slaithwaite, the Baptists built their chapel on the edge of Worts Hill in 1790. After closing in 1992,^[1] the chapel, Sunday school and an adjoining late-19th century warehouse were converted into housing and are Grade II listed buildings.^[2]

The Huddersfield to Rochdale turnpike road of 1806, the A640 passes over Pole Moor where there was an inn, the Royal George, and where several pack horse routes crossed, including one from Halifax to Marsden and on to Lancashire.^[1]

Geography

Scammonden Reservoir in the Deanhead Valley is to the west, the M62 motorway passes to the north and to the south 700 feet (210 m) below Moorside Edge is Slaithwaite in the Colne Valley. Moorside Edge medium wave radio transmitter's antenna are located at 340 metres (1,120 ft) OD on the moor.^[3] An old bridle way passed over the moor to Scammonden at Worts Hill to the west.^[4]

Inns

Among the hamlet's public houses were the Lower Royal George and the Upper Royal George which was built in 1457 as the Royal George Inn and renamed the Jack O' Mitre in the 1980s.^{[citation needed]} The Sun Inn was demolished.^{[citation needed]} The Nont Sarah Hotel is being refurbished as a community hub.^[5]

Panorama of Pole Moor showing the Moorside Edge (MW) transmitters and Worts Hill to the left of the hamlet

References

^ ^a ^b Pole Moor Baptist Chapel, Scammonden, Huddersfield, Reflections on the early history (PDF), Biblical Studies.org.uk, retrieved 28 August 2013
^ Historic England, "Pole Moor Baptist Church Sunday School and adjoining house (1274705)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 29 August 2013
^ The Transmission Gallery Moorside Edge, mb21.co.uk, retrieved 29 August 2013
^ Footpath, Worts Hill and West End, Slaithwaite. A tarmac lan..., Geolocation, retrieved 29 August 2013
^ Huddersfield Examiner - Nont Sarah's Retrieved 6 June 2015

[Chapel-1] Pole Moor Baptist Chapel, Scammonden, Huddersfield, Reflections on the early history (PDF), Biblical Studies.org.uk, retrieved 28 August 2013

[2] Historic England, "Pole Moor Baptist Church Sunday School and adjoining house (1274705)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 29 August 2013

[3] The Transmission Gallery Moorside Edge, mb21.co.uk, retrieved 29 August 2013

[4] Footpath, Worts Hill and West End, Slaithwaite. A tarmac lan..., Geolocation, retrieved 29 August 2013

[5] Huddersfield Examiner - Nont Sarah's Retrieved 6 June 2015

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