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Village in West Yorkshire, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hartshead is a village in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England, 3.7 miles (6 km) west of Dewsbury[1] and near to Hartshead Moor.[2]
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 The centre of Hartshead village | |
  Hartshead Location within West Yorkshire | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
The village has pre-Norman Conquest origins; the Walton Cross is believed to be dated from the 11th century.[3]
The name Hartshead is derived from Herteshevet or Herteshede which is Scandinavian in origin and means Hill of Heort, Heort meaning Hart in modern English.[4]
Patrick Brontë served as curate of St Peter's Church in Hartshead between 1811 and 1815,[5] in which time he met his wife, Maria Branwell (although they met in Rawdon, some dozen or so miles away from Hartshead).[6] They were married in Guiseley and became the parents of Anne, Branwell, Charlotte and Emily Brontë.[7]
Kirklees Hall is between Hartshead and the nearby village of Clifton.
Robin Hood is reputed to have been buried near Hartshead[8] or in the grounds of the nearby Kirklees Hall.[9] The exact place is not known, as the gravestone has been moved at least 3 times.
Hartshead was historically a chapelry in the parish of Dewsbury, becoming a civil parish in 1866.[10][11] In 1931 the parish had a population of 849.[12] On 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished, with most of the area, including the village, being added to the parish of Liversedge in the urban district of Spenborough (which became a borough in 1955). The remainder was added to Brighouse.[13] Spenborough Urban District was abolished in 1974 when Kirklees was created. No successor parish was created for the borough and it became an unparished area.[14]
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