Dalton
As an area it is quite difficult to define as it has no distinct centre, nor its own parish church, but Dalton is an old-established area of Huddersfield, mentioned (as Daltone) in the Domesday book of 1086.
Dalton eventually became one of the 'township' or Local Board areas surrounding Huddersfield, bounded by the River Colne and Lees Beck/Fenay Beck and to the south its boundary with Almondbury.
By the 1890s, Moldgreen, which was within the Dalton area, was building up into a distinct district with a school, church and housing etc, but there was little but fields and a scattering of tiny hamlets, isolated mills, farms, cottages and a few large mansions across the very green remainder of the Dalton area.
The hamlets were mainly around old routes from Almondbury via Dalton Bank to Colne Bridge and from Huddersfield to Kirkheaton as well as the present main route through the area from Huddersfield towards Wakefield and Kirkburton.
Dalton appeared in the name of many of the localities, such as the Dalton Dye Works and Dalton Fold, off Carr Green Lane; Dalton Grange, a house above Bradley Mills; Dalton Gardens were near an isolated hotel where the shops of Rawthorpe now are; Dalton Lees Mill was in the area south of the River Colne at the chemical works site; the old Dalton Mills and Dalton Lodge were near the end of Long Lane, near to the junction of Dalton Green Lane which crossed Dalton Green. A hamlet developed at Grove Place around the chapel there and another at Greenside around the Greenside Mills.
Since that time, the farmland has gradually disappeared and the gaps between the hamlets have almost totally gone with the building of estates of houses and other infill development through the 20th century. Rawthorpe, originally just a hall and farm within Dalton has seen a housing estate, a church and schools developed, together with shops, and is usually regarded as the name of the district these days. Waterloo, little more than an Inn in the 1890s, has similarly evolved into a district with the name.
Today references to Dalton are usually to the various parts of the original 'township' which were not absorbed into the other named districts, particularly
A hospital was developed in Dalton in 1929. The Mill Hill Hospital, at Dalton Green Lane, was originally an isolation hospital until 1948, when it was put to other uses, including geriatric care. It was eventually closed in 1994. A health centre was created on part of the site, which was mostly sold for housing development.
After six years of public fundraising support, Kirkwood Hospice opened in Albany Road, Dalton, in 1987.
Around Dalton
Convenience stores and other local traders can be found at various locations around the Dalton area, with small groups of shops in Long Lane and in Wakefield Road.
The Stag is in Wakefield Road, Dalton.The Black Horse is in Briggate.
Rawthorpe Dalton Library and Information Centre is in Ridgeway, Dalton.
DRAM Sports and Community Centre is off Ridgeway, Dalton. 
Dalton School Junior Infant and Nursery is in Mayfield Avenue. 
Dalton School
Most of Dalton falls within the Dalton Baptist Church is in Harp Inge.
English Martyrs' Church is in Teddington Avenue.
English Martyrs' ChurchThe New Church is in Grove Place.
The New ChurchSt Paul's Methodist Church, often called Dalton St Paul's Methodist Church, is in Wakefield Road, Moldgreen.
Huddersfield Methodist Circuit - Dalton St Paul's
Local government
Civil parish council
There is no civil parish council for this area, which prior to 1974 was part of the Huddersfield County Borough.Metropolitan district council
Dalton is divided between the Dalton ward (north of Wakefield Road) and Almondbury ward (south of Wakefield Road) of Kirklees Council. Kirklees Council website
Kirklees Council
Travel
Bus services
via Ridgeway and Long Lane:
371
Timetable at
Metro First Bus via Grosvenor Road and Albany Road:
260 WITHDRAWN
261
Evening services part route: Huddersfield - Upper Heaton or Mirfield.
Reinstatement of some Monday-Saturday early evening services.
Withdrawal of only remaining late evening services on Sundays.
Timetable at
Metro Arriva Yorkshire Services via Longfield Avenue:
374
Timetable at
Metro South Pennine Community Transport375
Timetable at
Metro South Pennine Community Transport via Wakefield Road:
D1 Daily including evenings
Timetable at
Metro Team Pennine D2 Monday - Saturday daytime
Timetable at
Metro Team Pennine D3 Monday - Saturday daytime
Timetable at
Metro Team Pennine X41 Monday - Friday daytime WITHDRAWN
231
Timetable at
Metro Arriva Yorkshire232
Timetable at
Metro Arriva Yorkshire372
Timetable at
Metro First Bus
Road Travel
The Other places near Dalton: