Huddersfield town centre
Within the town centre are attractive squares and green spaces in addition to its wide range of shops and an amazing selection of places to eat and drink, during the day and at night.
The town centre is well-defined as it is encircled by the A62 ring road from which there is access to several car parks.
Stay into the evening and the town has an active nightlife, with a rich variety of pubs and restaurants to suit all tastes, a theatre and events at the Town Hall's fine concert hall.
Around Huddersfield town centre
The town offers a variety of shops in an environment to suit all weathers and tastes, from indoor shopping in Kingsgate and the Pack Horse Centre to outdoors under the canopies of the Piazza Shopping Centre surrounding the grassed area of Princess Alexandra Walk.Elsewhere there are pedestrianised streets and hidden arcades offering those artistic and hard to find items.
For those looking for a bargain, the town also has a wide selection of charity stores and there are still bargain stores beating inflation with £1 items.
The town's Queensgate Market Hall recently closed as part of redevelopment plans, but many of the market traders have new shops around the town. At the north end of the town centre, the Huddersfield Open Market at Brook Street is still a bustling place. Part of this market is covered under the canopy of the town's former wholesale market. There are general markets there on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays and secondhand markets on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Although all the main supermarkets are represented around the Huddersfield area, those within or just off the ring road include Tesco at Viaduct Street, Sainsbury's at Market Street and at Shore Head and Lidl, across the ring road at Castlegate.
The Huddersfield town centre post office is in New Street.
Leading pharmacy store chains are represented in the town centre together with in-store pharmacies at some supermarkets.
The town has a good range of bank and building society branches.
Both shoppers and evening visitors to Huddersfield town centre do not have to look far to find restaurants and pubs catering for all kinds of British and international tastes. Until recently an annual Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival has been held in the town centre in August, providing a sample of what the huge range of food outlets in the town offer on a regular basis. 
Pubs, many with ales from some of the many microbreweries in the area, are scattered in various locations around the town. One of the largest concentration of bars is in the King Street area, some of which cater for shoppers visiting the Kingsgate centre during the day while seeing an influx of students from the nearby University of Huddersfield at night.
If it's fast food you are after, then there are many outlets all around the town. Several late-night takeaways can be found in the Cross Church Street area in addition to some of the well-known chains situated not far from the Market Place.
The Lawrence Batley Theatre in Queen Street offers a varied range of theatre from touring and local companies and also offers smaller performance spaces in its cellar and attic theatres. Huddersfield Town Hall is a fine concert venue as well as offering a platform for other major acts, while the nearby St Paul's Hall, a converted former church at the University of Huddersfield, continues the town's musical tradition by offering further concert space at a venue which has also been used by BBC TV's Question Time.
Huddersfield Library and Art Gallery was situated at Princess Alexandra Walk and included a children's library, reference library and local history section and the town's art gallery as well as the main lending library. This building closed at the end of 2022 and the adult and children's libraries are temporarily housed at the Civic Centre at Market Street with the Local Studies Library at Victoria Lane.
Huddersfield Leisure Centre is just across Castlegate ring road through the pedestrian subway from Huddersfield bus station. It offers facilities for a variety of sports as well as its new leisure pool with slides, a competition pool and training pool.
The 
The main Huddersfield campus of Kirklees College at the Waterfront Quarter at Manchester Road is also just across the ring road from the town centre.
St Peter's Church, Huddersfield Parish Church is in Byram Street at the corner of Kirkgate in the centre of town.• St Patrick's Church, part of the Roman Catholic Parish of the Holy Redeemer, is in New North Road.
• New Life Church congregate at Huddersfield Mission, previously Huddersfield Methodist Mission, at Lord Street.
• Hope Church meet at Brian Jackson House, New North Parade.
• Elim Pentecostal Church meets at The Grace Centre, St John's Road.
• Polska Parafia Huddersfield (Polish Church) is in Fitzwilliam Street.
• Shri Sita Ram Mandir - Huddersfield Hindu Temple is in Zetland Street.
• There is a nearby Sikh Temple and Muslim mosque in the district of
Travel
Bus travel to Huddersfield town centre
Bus services operate into the town centre from towns and villages throughout the Huddersfield area and from all the largest towns and cities in West Yorkshire. Most bus services operate into the bus station in Upperhead Row and there are additional stops in town centre streets.
With so many services operating into town we cannot list them all here, but you can easily find the local service you need by selecting your destination through our
A free shuttle bus operates around the town centre streets linking the main shopping areas, some car parks, the station and bus station.
Free Town Bus Circular, Monday to Saturday
Bus operates every 20 minutes from 9.30am to 2.50pm
Further details at 
Metro
Metro Huddersfield station
The station provides a link from village stations along the
Northern - HuddersfieldHuddersfield station is managed by TransPennine Express.
Driving to Huddersfield town centre
There are several car parks within easy reach of the ring road, including the Bus Station multi-storey and at the Kingsgate shopping centre. On street parking within the ring road is limited and can involve a circuitous route around the town centre if attempting to find places. Several town centre streets are pedestrianised and there are a wide variety of street access restictions, including differing hours of general traffic restriction on daytime bus lanes in the town.