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Huddersfield

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Huddersfield is a large market town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It had 162,949 residents at the 2011 census. It sits close to the Pennines, 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Leeds, 12 miles (19 km) west of Wakefield, 23 miles (37 km) northwest of Sheffield and 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Manchester. It hosts the administrative centre of its borough.The south of the town has the discharge of the Holme into the similar-size River Colne, West Yorkshire. These were tapped for steam turbines and textile treatment in the large weaving sheds which are associated with an economic boom in the early part of the Industrial Revolution. The town is the birth place of rugby league, Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson and film star James Mason. The current Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker, was born in Skelmanthorpe.The town is home to: in rugby league Huddersfield Giants, who play in the Super League; and in football Huddersfield Town who usually play in the Championship. It further hosts the University of Huddersfield and three colleges: Greenhead College, Kirklees College and Huddersfield New College. It has much neoclassical Victorian architecture centrally, among which its railway station which is in the rarest category of statutory recognition and protection (a Grade I listed building) – described by John Betjeman as "the most splendid station façade in England", second only to St Pancras, London. Fronting St George's Square it was renovated for £4 million and accordingly won the Europa Nostra award for architecture. It gained its own parliamentary representation in 1832. It is, like most of West and South Yorkshire in the historic (essentially defunct) division of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The town's population in 1961 had reached 130,652.