Dewsbury is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town, Dewsbury went through a period of decline. Dewsbury forms part of the Heavy Woollen District of which it is the largest town. The population of the built-up area was 63,722 at the 2021 Census.
Image: Dewsbury Town Hall, 2018
Image: Dewsbury Market Place (geograph 5686127)
Image: Dewsbury Parish
Image: Markazi Masjid junction of Pentland Street & South Street (geograph 3932877)
Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. The borough comprises the ten towns of Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite. It is governed by Kirklees Council. Kirklees had a population of 422,500 in 2011; it is the third-largest metropolitan district in England by area, behind Doncaster and Leeds.
Image: Huddersfield (16037400213)
Image: Dewsbury Minster in 2021
Image: Cleckheaton Town Hall geograph.org.uk 2936199
Image: Central Holmfirth geograph.org.uk 3229940
