Place:Newmill, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameNewmill
TypeUrban district
Coordinates53.574°N 1.75°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inWest Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    
See alsoFulstone, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandcivil parish from which it was formed in 1895
Hepworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandcivil parish from which it was formed in 1895
Scholes (near Holmfirth), West Riding of Yorkshire, England|civil parish from which it was formed in 1895
Kirklees (metropolitan borough), West Yorkshire, Englandmetropolitan borough of which it has been a part since 1974
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New Mill, West Yorkshire, England, is now a small, semi-rural village near the town of Holmfirth. Since 1974 it has been part of the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees and the civil parish of Holme Valley. With Fulstone the village had a population of 1,259 in the 2001 UK census. The village is 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Holmfirth and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Huddersfield.

Unsurprisingly, there were textile mills in the village such as Moorhouse & Brook, on Greenhill Bank Road, and Bower and Roebuck, nestling in the valley just off the A616 Sheffield Road. With the decline in traditional heavy woollen industries both these mills have now closed and their buildings demolished.

New Mill was created as an urban district of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1895, and covered part of the parish of Fulstone (the rest was absorbed by Penistone), along with the parishes of Hepworth and Scholes. The urban district was abolished in 1938 by a County Review Order which saw the district and parishes merged into the urban district and parish of Holmfirth, which has been since 1974 included in Kirklees, West Yorkshire and renamed Holme Valley.