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Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a university town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Bradford, on the River Colne, the Huddersfield Broad Canal, the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson hails from here, as well as actors Roy Castle and Patrick Stewart, and poet and author Simon Armitage.