Lockwood
including Salford and Yew Green (Yews Hill)
Map
Lockwood Bar
Lockwood
Former Lockwood Mechanics' Institute
Bridge Street, Lockwood
Lockwood is a district situated alongside the River Holme about a mile to the south-south-west of Huddersfield town centre along the
A616
Lockwood Road.
Although difficult to believe today, Lockwood was until the mid-19th century a village separated from Huddersfield by green fields.
The fields were soon to be filled by the Victorian expansion of Huddersfield's many woollen textile mills and associated industries.
Lockwood is the home of Huddersfield Rugby Union Football Club, which now occupies the Lockwood Park site of the former Bentley and Shaw brewery, which in later years was taken over by Bass Charrington before it closed in the late 1960s.
Former clock tower (now demolished) at Mount Pleasant Primary School
Lockwood Viaduct
The sports complex is beneath the massive 32-arch Lockwood Viaduct, which carries the
Penistone line
, the Huddersfield-Penistone-Sheffield railway, across the Holme Valley towards
Berry Brow
. The line was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway company in 1850.
Between Lockwood station and the viaduct, another, now-closed line branched off. This provided a link to
Netherton
and
Meltham
, not just for passengers but for the transport of tractors from the David Brown factory which was at Meltham Mills.
The growth of Lockwood came through the 19th century as Huddersfield expanded around its woollen textile mills. While many mill buildings remain in Lockwood, they have new industrial uses, including by a specialist in Christmas and seasonal displays.
Before the large mills were built, early expansion in the area was around the spa baths which opened in 1827. These faced up the wide Bath Terrace to a hotel in Lockwood Road. The scene has changed over the years, but the building used by the hotel and the front of the bath house are still there. The hotel building has since been turned to residential use and baths site became a tyre depot.
Park Gear Works in Park Road, Lockwood, is the home of David Brown Santasalo, a global gear specialist providing gear solutions across many industries. Before a merger with Santasalo in 2016, it was David Brown Gear Systems Ltd. The business was founded by David Brown at the age of 17 in 1860. The David Brown company also ventured into tractor manufacturing in 1936, building a plant at Meltham. The tractor business there was eventually sold to the US owners of JI Case in 1972, but the plant was closed in 1988.
Just across the bridge over the River Holme the area is known as Salford. There is little today to distinguish it from the wider Lockwood except for there being a Salford Village Green behind the pub, now called The Lockwood. The section of Woodhead Road through the area was at one time named Salford Road. Salford was also the location of Emmanuel Church, Lockwood, at the foot of Taylor Hill Road. The church was opened in 1830 and closed in 1992 and has since been converted to a residential use.
Salford
Yews Hill Road
While Lockwood extended south-east to Salford, it also extended north-east into an old hamlet called Yew Green. In the mid 19th century this was the location of a green, cottages, a small workhouse, a pub named The Shipwreck Inn and the Rehobeth Baptist Chapel. The chapel was built in 1831 by a breakaway group from the Lockwood Baptist Church which had been established in 1792. In recent years the building has been reused as a mosque.
Change came to Yew Green with the arrival of the railway through a tunnel from
Thornton Lodge
in 1850. The railway divided Yew Green from the rest of Lockwood with a road underbridge near the new Lockwood station. The following years saw greater change with the building of the Prospect Iron Works and the Park Gear Works of David Brown, these eventually swallowing up much of the original Yew Green. The pub survived for many years before closing.
The neighbouring district of
Crosland Moor
was also expanding in the late 19th century, and when St Barnabas Church, Crosland Moor, was built at its edge it also bridged the gap between Crosland Moor and Yew Green. Some of the only remaining early houses of Yew Green are among houses in what is now Yews Hill Road. The locality today is often referred to as Yews Hill rather than Yew Green.
The mid-19th century extension of Huddersfield across the fields to Lockwood created the area of Rashcliffe, which had its own church, St Stephen, Rashcliffe, until its closure in 2013. We have a separate page on
Rashcliffe
.
As well as the Baptist chapels, Lockwood also once had two Methodist churches, but has none today. Lockwood's Wesleyan Reform Methodist Church was built in 1864 in Bentley Street and a Sunday School behind it was built 20 years later. Lockwood Wesleyan Methodist Church built a new chapel in Lower Mount Street betwen 1880 and 1881, replacing a mission chapel of 1871 in Bath Terrace. The Wesleyan Church closed in 1957 and amalgamated with the church at Bentley Street, which was using its Sunday School building in its last few years before closing in 1991.
The parish church of Lockwood, Emmanuel Church, dated from 1828 and was closed in 1992. The listed building was converted to a house. The parish was moved into that at the top of the steep hill of Lockwood Scar at St John,
Newsome
, which adopted the Lockwood church name as The Emmanuel Benefice. Only the area of Yew Green to the west of the railway line and tunnel is in the parish of the nearer church of St Barnabas, Crosland Moor.
Around Lockwood
Lockwood has a wide range of shops from the usual convenience stores, bakery shop and hairdressers to many specialist shops and traders, among them stores for eastern european provisions, safety equipment and workwear, interiors and motor scooters. Dixons Milk Ices has an ice cream shop at its headquarters in Swan Lane.
Lockwood has pharmacies in Lockwood Road and at Meltham Road surgery.
The Swan is in Swan Lane, The Shoulder of Mutton is at Neal Road and The Lockwood is in Woodhead Road.
Lockwood and Salford Conservative Club is in Lockwood Road.
Lockwood has several takeaways catering in most cuisines.
Lockwood has an Italian restaurant in Water Street. The Waterloo Suite at the Lockwood Park rugby ground caters for functions.
Huddersfield Rugby Union Club at Lockwood Park organises sport for under-sixes upwards.
Huddersfield Rugby Union Club
website
The
A616
bridges the River Holme at Bridge Street in Lockwood.
Mount Pleasant Primary School is in Mount Street.
Mount Pleasant Primary School
website
Lockwood Baptist Church is in Lockwood Road at Lockwood Bar. The first baptist church opened here in 1792, replaced by the current building in 1851.
Lockwood Baptist Church
website
Jamia Masjid Bilal is in Yews Hill Road.
Masjid Bilal
website
Lockwood is mostly in the Crosland Moor and Netherton ward of Kirklees Council, the metropolitan district council, but part is in the Newsome ward.
Rashcliffe (north of Mount Street), all the area between Lockwood Road and the River Holme and Salford to the east of the River Holme, are in the Newsome ward.
Kirklees Council
website
There is no civil parish council for this area, which prior to 1974 was in the Huddersfield County Borough.
Travel
Lockwood station
Swan Lane
The station is served by trains on the
Penistone Line
operating to the villages and towns between Huddersfield and Sheffield via Denby Dale, Penistone, Barnsley and Meadowhall.
Huddersfield > Lockwood ~ 3 min
Northern - Lockwood
Station and departure information at Northern website.
Bus services
via Lockwood Bar:
310
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Lockwood
-
Berry Brow
Parkgate
-
Honley
Bridge -
Woodhead Road
-
Thongsbridge
-
at Woodhead Road/Huddersfield Road
-
Holmfirth
Bus station
-
Scholes
-
Jackson Bridge
-
Hepworth
Timetable at
Metro
Search for operator's information at
First
314
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Lockwood
-
Berry Brow
Parkgate
-
Honley
Bridge -
Brockholes
-
New Mill
-
Wooldale
New Mill Road
-
Holmfirth
Bus station
-
Hinchliffe Mill
Woodhead Road
-
Holmbridge
-
Holme
Timetable at
Metro
Search for operator's information at
First
316
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Lockwood
-
Berry Brow
Parkgate
-
Honley
Bridge -
Brockholes
-
New Mill
-
Holmfirth Road
-
Wooldale
New Mill Road
-
Holmfirth
Bus station
- Parkhead
No longer operates via Royds Avenue. Runs from New Mill to Holmfirth via Holmfirth Road/New Mill Road.
Timetable at
Metro
Search for operator's information at
First
317
Monday to Saturday, morning and early afternoon,
Almondbury
-
Castle Hill
at Ashes Lane / High Lane
-
Hall Bower
High Lane
-
Newsome
Jackroyd Lane, Church Lane
-
Lockwood
Bridge Street, Swan Lane, Lockwood station
Penistone line
-
Crosland Moor
-
Milnsbridge
-
Paddock
Longwood Road
-
Quarmby
- Huddersfield Royal Infirmary -
Lindley
WITHDRAWN FROM APRIL 2, 2023
Timetable at
Metro
Timetables
(.pdf format)
at
Stotts Coach Travel
321
Every day late evening, after end of 324 service
Huddersfield
-
Lockwood
-
Netherton
Meltham Road, Moor Lane, Coppice Drive, Netherton Moor Road, Falconers Ride, Hawkroyd Bank Road
-
Meltham
Market Place,
Broadlands
Timetable at
Metro
323
Every day daytime, only until early afternoon on Saturday & Sunday
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Lockwood
-
Netherton
Meltham Road, Moor Lane, Coppice Drive*, Falconers Ride*, Hawkroyd Bank Road*, Moor Lane, Meltham Road
Direction of travel between Coppice Drive and Hawkroyd Bank Road varies (see timetable).
First services withdrawn from July 2, 2023, Team Pennine services will continue
Timetable at
Metro
324
Every day until mid-evening, then see 321
Huddersfield
-
Lockwood
-
Netherton
Meltham Road
-
Meltham
Market Place,
Broadlands
Most early morning services withdrawn and Monday-Saturday daytime frequency cut from 15 to 20 minutes from July 2, 2023
Timetable at
Metro
First service information at
First
355
Monday to Friday early morning and early evening, Saturday early evening to Huddersfield
Huddersfield
Bus Station
-
Lockwood
-
Armitage Bridge
Armitage Road, Bank Foot Lane
-
Netherton
Marten Drive, Delph Lane, Moor Lane
-
South Crosland
Timetable at
Metro
. Timetables
(.pdf format)
at
South Pennine Community Transport
via Yew Green / Lockwood station:
317
See above
387
Monday to Saturday daytime
Huddersfield
Bus Station
-
Longroyd Bridge
-
Thornton Lodge
Manchester Road
-
Crosland Moor
Blackmoorfoot Road, Park Road
-
Lockwood
Yew Green, Lockwood station
Penistone line
-
Crosland Moor
Walpole Road, Dryclough Road
Beaumont Park
Beaumont Park Road, Moor End Road
Timetable at
Metro
Service information at
First
Road Travel
Lockwood is about a mile south-south-west of Huddersfield town centre along the
A616
Lockwood Road. At Lockwood Bar traffic lights in the centre of Lockwood, the
A616
turns to the left to cross the River Holme, while the
B6108
Meltham Road continues ahead.
Also in Huddersfield.guide
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Other places near Lockwood:
Crosland Moor
Newsome
Taylor Hill
Thornton Lodge
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