Lockwood
including Salford and Yew Green (Yews Hill)
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.
Between Lockwood station and the viaduct, another, now-closed line branched off. This provided a link to
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.
Change came to Yew Green with the arrival of the railway through a tunnel from
The neighbouring district of
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
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,
Today Lockwood is mostly split between parishes of St Paul's Church,
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
The 
Mount Pleasant Primary School is in Mount Street. Mount Pleasant Primary School
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 ChurchJamia Masjid Bilal is in Yews Hill Road.
Masjid Bilal
Local government
Civil parish council
There is no civil parish council for this area, which prior to 1974 was in the Huddersfield County Borough.Metropolitan district council
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
Kirklees Council
Travel
Lockwood station Swan Lane
The station is served by trains on the Huddersfield > Lockwood ~ 3 min
Northern - Lockwood
Bus services
via Lockwood Bar:
310
Timetable at
Metro First Bus314
Timetable at
Metro First Bus316
Timetable at
Metro First Bus 321 WITHDRAWN
323 Only Monday - Friday (late evening), Saturday (late evening and one early morning Meltham - Huddersfield) and Sunday (all day)
Timetable at
Metro First Bus 324 (No late evening service from Huddersfield, see 323)
Timetable at
Metro First Bus 355 Monday to Saturday (2 journeys each way, one on Saturdays). See also 354
Timetable at
Metro South Pennine Community Transport via Yew Green / Lockwood station:
387 Monday to Saturday daytime
Beaumont Park
Timetable at
Metro First
Road Travel
Lockwood is about a mile south-south-west of Huddersfield town centre along the Other places near Lockwood: