Place:Holmbridge, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Holmbridge is a small village on the A6024 to the southwest of Holmfirth and south of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the modern parish of Holme Valley (once the Holmfirth Urban District) and the metropolitan borough of Kirklees.

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"HOLME-BRIDGE, a village and a chapelry in Almondbury parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The village is in Austonley township; stands on an affluent of the river Colne, 2 miles SW of Holmfirth [railway] station, and 8 SSW of Huddersfield; and has a post office under Huddersfield. The chapelry was constituted in 1842; comprises the townships of Austonley and Holme; includes, within these townships, a large tract of the name of Hinchcliff, engaged in the woollen trade; and contains the places called Digley, Longwalls, Bradshaw, Banktop, Ogley, Stubbin, Upper Knowl, Flash-House, Crow-Stubbins, Yew-Tree, Carr-Lane, Greengate, Bottoms, New Laith, Edge-End, Townend, Whitewalls, Hoowood, Greensyke, and Green Owlers. Acres: 5,750. Real property: £7,883; of which 505 are in quarries. Population in 1851: 3,183; in 1861: 2,708. Houses: 504.

"The decrease of population was all in Austonley township, and arose from the destruction of a number of mills by the bursting of Bilberry reservoir. That disaster occurred in 1852, and involved the loss of 81 lives, and also a loss of nearly £100,000's worth of property. The reservoir was reconstructed in 1855. The stream which drains the chapelry bears the name of Holme river; rises among mountains near the chapelry's boundary with Cheshire; and runs north-north-eastward and northward, past Holmfirth, to the [River] Colne below Hapton. The upper part of the chapelry is part of the backbone of England; and Holme-Edge there has an altitude of 1,859 feet. There are, in the valley, several woollen, scribbling, and fulling mills. The manor belongs to S. W. L. Fox. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church was built in 1840; is in the pointed style; and has an embattled tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel at Hinchcliff Mill, and a national school at Holme-Bridge village."

Historically, Holmbridge was in the ecclesiastical parish of Almondbury in the Agbrigg Division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley. From 1937 until 1974, Holmbridge was located in Holmfirth Urban District.