Moldgreen
MoldgreenTolson Museum, Ravensknowle ParkCloth Hall clock tower, Ravensknowle Park
Moldgreen is a district of Huddersfield about one mile east of Huddersfield town centre along the A629 Wakefield Road.
In the 19th century, Moldgreen was part of the very rural 'township' of Dalton and was the first part of it to see heavy urbanisation.
The building of many new textile mills near the river and canal to the south of Huddersfield saw the edges of the town expand in the latter half of the 1800s with terrace housing and schools created in nearby Moldgreen for the mill workers.
While some of Victorian Moldgreen was cleared when Wakefield Road was widened a century later, housing in the area continued to expand across Moldgreen and into the neighbouring fields and hamlets of Dalton.
Moldgreen is the location of Ravensknowle Park which includes Huddersfield's museum, the Tolson Museum. The museum is based in a former Victorian mansion which was presented with its grounds to the Huddersfield Corporation in 1919 by its owner in memory of his nephews who were killed in World War I. The grounds became the park where a shelter created from the clock tower of Huddersfield's former Cloth Hall was later placed.
Around Moldgreen
Moldgreen has convenience stores and a good range of other shops, including outdoors and music specialists. Most of the shops are around Broad Lane and Old Wakefield Road, the old main road through the area where there is now ample place to park.
Moldgreen post office is in Broad Lane.
Moldgreen has a pharmacy in Broad Lane.
The Ivy Green is in Wakefield Road at the junction with Broad Lane.
The Brooks Arms is in Broad Lane.
Moldgreen Liberal Club is in Old Wakefield Road.
Ravensknowle Park is in Moldgreen.
The Tolson Museum, Huddersfield's museum, is in Ravensknowle Park. Kirklees Council - Tolson Museum web page. Tolson Museum social media page
Moldgreen Community Primary School is in The Avenue. Moldgreen Community Primary School website
Christ Church Moldgreen is in Church Street. CofE Christ Church web page
Moldgreen United Reformed Church is in Old Wakefield Road. Moldgreen United Reformed Church website
St Paul's Methodist Church is in Wakefield Road, Moldgreen. Huddersfield Methodist Circuit - Dalton St Paul's web page
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
Moldgreen is divided between the Dalton ward (north of Wakefield Road) and Almondbury ward (south of Wakefield Road) of Kirklees Council.
Travel
Bus services
D1 Daily including evenings
D1 at Kirkgate, HuddersfieldHuddersfield - Aspley - Moldgreen - Dalton Wakefield Road - Waterloo - Fenay Bridge Penistone Road - Highburton Far Dene, Town Gate, Moor Lane - Kirkburton Paddock Road, Turnshaw Road, George Street - Shelley Huddersfield Road - Skelmanthorpe Commercial Road - Scissett Highbridge Lane, Wakefield Road - Clayton West Long Lane, Scott Hill, Church Lane, Chapel Hill - Scissett Spring Grove, Barnsley Road, Wakefield Road - Kitchenroyd - Denby Dale Gilthwaites Lane, Pingle Rise, Gilthwaites Crescent, Wakefield Road, Village Centre and Denby Dale Station Penistone Line
Timetable at Metro Timetables and information at Team Pennine
D2 Monday - Saturday daytime
Huddersfield - Aspley - Moldgreen - Dalton Wakefield Road - Waterloo - Fenay Bridge Penistone Road - Kirkburton Penistone Road - Shelley Penistone Road - Shepley Abbey Road South, Marsh Lane - Upper Cumberworth - Lower Cumberworth - Denby Dale Village centre and station Penistone line
Timetable at Metro Timetables and information at Team Pennine
D3 Monday - Saturday daytime
D3 at Upper DenbyHuddersfield Bus station - Aspley - Moldgreen - Dalton Wakefield Road - Waterloo Morrisons - Fenay Bridge Penistone Road - Lepton Highgate Crescent, Rowley Lane - Kirkburton North Road, Riley Lane - Shelley Penistone Road - Shepley Marsh Lane, The Sovereign crossroads - Birds Edge - High Flatts - Upper Denby - Lower Denby - Denby Dale Village centre and station Penistone line.
Timetable at Metro Timetables and information at Team Pennine
231
231 at LeptonHuddersfield Bus station - Aspley - Moldgreen - Dalton Wakefield Road - Waterloo - Tandem - Lepton Greave House Terrace, Highgate Lane, Rowley Lane - Grange Moor - Flockton - Midgley - Netherton (Wakefield district) - Horbury Bridge - Horbury - Wakefield
Timetable at Metro Timetables and information at Arriva Yorkshire
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232 at FlocktonHuddersfield Bus station - Aspley - Moldgreen - Dalton Wakefield Road - Waterloo - Tandem - Lepton Greave House Terrace, Highgate Lane, Rowley Lane - Flockton Moor - Emley Moor - Emley - Flockton - Overton - Middlestown - Horbury Bridge - Horbury - Wakefield
Timetable at Metro Timetables and information at Arriva Yorkshire
X41 Monday - Friday daytime WITHDRAWN
Huddersfield Bus station - Moldgreen - Dalton Wakefield Road - Waterloo - Fenay Bridge Penistone Road, Station Road - Lepton Highgate Lane, Rowley Lane, Town End Lane, Botany Lane - Whitley Willows - Houses Hill - Grange Moor - Overton National Coal Mining Museum, Black Bull - Middlestown
260 WITHDRAWN
Huddersfield Bus station - Aspley - Moldgreen - Dalton Grosvenor Road, Albany Road - Kirkheaton - Upper Heaton - Colne Bridge - Roberttown - Liversedge - Cleckheaton
WITHDRAWN: See 254 for journeys Huddersfield to Cleckheaton via Brighouse
370
370 at RawthorpeRawthorpe - Moldgreen - Aspley - Huddersfield Bus Station - Marsh - Oakes - Salendine Nook New Hey Road, Huddersfield New College -
Salendine Nook Huddersfield New College, New Hey Road, Moor Hill Road - Lindley Cowrakes Road, West Street, Lidget Street, Acre Street - Huddersfield Royal Infirmary - Marsh - Huddersfield Westgate - Aspley - Moldgreen - Rawthorpe
Timetables at Metro Timetables at First Bus
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Dalton Crossley Lane, Long Lane, Ridgeway - Moldgreen - Aspley - Huddersfield - Marsh - Huddersfield Royal Infirmary - Lindley
Lindley - Salendine Nook - Oakes - Marsh - Huddersfield - Aspley - Moldgreen - Dalton Ridgeway, Long Lane, Crossley Lane
Timetable at Metro Timetables at First Bus
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372 at AlmondburyAlmondbury Northgate, Southfield Road, Aldonley, Fernside Avenue - Waterloo - Dalton Wakefield Road - Moldgreen - Aspley - Huddersfield Bus station
Timetable at Metro Timetables at First Bus
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Huddersfield Bus Station - Aspley - Moldgreen - Dalton Coniston Avenue, Dalton Fold Road, Carr Green Lane, Long Lane, Longfield Avenue, Holays, Cross Fields, Brock, Bank, Coule Royd, Cow Heys, then Circular return via Long Lane to Carr Green Lane.
Timetable at Metro Timetables (.pdf format) at South Pennine Community Transport
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Huddersfield Bus Station - Aspley - Moldgreen - Dalton Coniston Avenue, Dalton Fold Road, Carr Green Lane, Long Lane, Longfield Avenue, Holays, Cross Fields, Brock, Bank, Coule Royd, Cow Heys, Long Lane, Tolson Crescent, White Rose Avenue, Dalton Green Lane, Albany Road, Edgeware Road, Woodedge Avenue
Timetable at Metro Timetables (.pdf format) at South Pennine Community Transport
Road travel
The A629 Wakefield Road passes through the area.
Other places near Moldgreen:
Almondbury Aspley Dalton Longley Lowerhouses
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