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Another defeat for Huddersfield Town

Saturday's match League One
Exeter City 3 - Huddersfield Town 1
Saturday April 26, 3.00pm — St James Park, Exeter

A fifth lost game in a row sees Town continue their end of season slide to 10th place in League One. Town once again were the first to get ahead after a Josh Koroma goal after 20 minutes, but that was as far as it went for the Terriers before the three goal onslaught from Exeter. Town's final game of the 2024-25 season is at home against Leyton Orient next Saturday (May 3).

Easter Monday result League One
Stockport County 2 - Huddersfield Town 1
Monday April 21, 3.00pm — Edgeley Park, Stockport

Huddersfield Town took on Stockport County away this Easter Monday and experienced a defeat which definitely seals their fate as a League One club again next season.

Town stay in ninth place in the league but any last hope of reaching a play-off place from their two remaining games are now dashed.

The Terriers got ahead through a Josh Koroma goal just over an hour into the game. Stockport equalised after 74 minutes then got ahead with a 87th minute penalty following a yellow card foul by Matty Pearson in the penalty area. Town ended the game on a further low as Callum Marshall, who had come on as substitute for Koroma, was given a red card for a foul in the fifth minute of added time. Stockport stay in the fifth place play-off position which Town occupied for several weeks earlier in the year.

Find out more at the  Huddersfield Town official website.

Huddersfield station fully closed again this weekend

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Work is progressing on refurbishment of the internal roof of the stationAfter a brief respite from full closure over Easter, Huddersfield railway station will again have bus replacement to begin all journeys this Saturday and Sunday (April 26-27).

After track relaying around Mirfield over the Easter weekend the focus of work on the TransPennine rail line upgrade returns to the area around Huddersfield and will close the station at weekends for a few more weeks.

On Saturdays and Sundays there are also no trains at Marsden, Slaithwaite and Deighton with bus replacements there at stops some distance from the station.

A limited TransPennine Express service is diverting on the considerably longer route via the Calder Valley with a stop at Brighouse for bus connection to and from Huddersfield. Trains towards Sheffield have bus connection to Lockwood.

A replacement bus takes passengers between Huddersfield and Manchester Airport throughout the weekend. There will be additional disruption if aiming to travel beyond Manchester on Sunday due to engineering work at Salford.

More detail on the interactive rail map at  Yorkshire.guide.
More about work on this line at the  TransPennine Route Upgrade website.
Check details of your journey at the  National Rail website.

Pennine Way celebrates 60 years.

The Pennine Way route passes above MarsdenThe moors above the Wessenden ValleyBritain's first and most challenging National Trail, which crosses moorland near Marsden, celebrates its 60th anniversary this April 25.

The Pennine Way is a 268mile (431km) walking route across wild landscapes in the hills and mountains of The Pennines from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish borders. Well over 100 miles of that route is in Yorkshire.

Several miles are in the Huddersfield area from West Yorkshire's highest point at Black Hill (582m), across Wessenden Head Moor and past Wessenden Reservoir, climbing Blakely Clough to Black Moss Reservoir and Standege, then crossing recently fire-damaged moorland to Haigh Gutter Moss on the way to White Hill (466m).

Some of the Pennine Way route crosses the National Trust Marsden Moor estate and the National Trust is organising one of its regular guided walks this Sunday (April 27) to celebrate the anniversary. The 10-mile route from Marsden includes a section of the Pennine Way.

Further information about the Pennine Way anniversary at the  Yorkshire.guide website.
Find out more about the Pennine Way anniversary at the  National Trails website.
Find out more about the  National Trust Marsden Moor estate, including events and walks

New leisure venue opens at Kingsgate

The King Street entrance of the new leisure venue this Friday morningHuddersfield's newest leisure venue has been opened at the Kingsgate Centre in Huddersfield.

The Light was able to welcome its first visitors through the doors inside the Kingsgate shopping centre on Friday April 11.

Much construction work has taken place to create the £250m cinema and leisure complex, including raising the height of the building in the area previously occupied by the House of Fraser department store.

The Light offers a multi-screen cinema, bowling, laser games, mini golf, climbing centre, street curling, axe throwing, shooting, interactive darts, karaoke, arcade games among its activities together with food and drink.

Walls come down but unique roof stands at former market

The listed roof structure of the former market is exposedDemolition continues at the former Queensgate Market and Piazza site in Huddersfield town centre.

Kirklees Council plans to redevelop the area around the Market Hall. The plans include demolition of part of the Market building to form a new public square in front of the library and beside the Town Hall.

End of an era - part of the market building is demolishedA model of the proposed Cultural Heart plansThe listed part of the Market building with its unique airy roof design and sculptured panels will be retained as a Food Hall, social dining area and part of a new library which will extend from it.

A town park will stretch from the public square to the corner of King Street and Queen Street. The old library building is due to be retained as a museum.

The work means that bus stops in Peel Street have been taken out of use with the bus station now the only stop for the routes which used them.

Second building taking shape at new health campus

The new building in Leeds Road is taking shape next to the recently completed Daphne Steele buildingWork continues on the new building next to Leeds Road The second building of the University of Huddersfield's new National Health Innovation Campus at the ring road junction of Southgate and Leeds Road is now well under way.

The first construction on the site was completed earlier this year and has been named the Daphne Steele Building. Daphne Steele was a nurse who came to the UK in 1951 from what was then British Guiana, now Guyana, to work in the recently-formed NHS. She became a matron at St Winifred's Hospital, Ilkley in 1964.

The new campus aims to lead healthcare innovation across the North of England and will feature a health and wellbeing academy, research and specialist clinical teaching facilities and public-facing features including a podiatry clinic, sports and physiotherapy clinic and health coaching by video link.

The site had been vacant since the demolition of Ibbotson and Lonsbrough Flats and the former Huddersfield Sports Centre while an earlier plan for a new Tesco store on the site was abandoned.

Local villages and districts

Check out our index of more than 100 villages, small towns, districts and hamlets in the Huddersfield area on our Villages Gazetteer page.


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