Fixby

St Francis Church and Community Hall, FixbyFixby is about two miles north of Huddersfield town centre.

It has rapidly expanded as a residential area since the middle of the 20th century with many large houses in the area.

To the west of Fixby is Fixby Park, the grounds of Fixby Hall, which is used for the golf course of Huddersfield Golf Club, founded in 1891.

Fixby Hall was modernised in the mid-18th century to its current Georgian style. Among tenants in the 19th century was Richard Oastler, who moved to Fixby in 1821, aged 31, as estates steward for absentee landlord Thomas Thornhill. Oastler devoted much of his life to the reform of child employment laws in Victorian Britain and campaigning which eventually led to the Ten Hours Bill and 1847 Factory Act. His time as steward at Fixby Hall came to end in 1838 when Thomas Thornhill sacked Oastler and later called in a debt which led to Oastler spending three years and two months in prison while friends and supporters rallied to raise the money needed to pay the debt.

North of Fixby, the curtilage of the M62 motorway, opened in 1970, creates the modern boundary between the edge of Huddersfield in the Kirklees metropolitan district and the neighbouring Calderdale metropolitan district, where the next village is Rastrick.

Before the motorway and the local government reorganisation of 1974, the Huddersfield County Borough had its boundary a few hundred metres closer to Huddersfield than the present boundary. It was around the point where Fixby Road becomes Clough Lane. Some properties at the Huddersfield side of the motorway, possibly seen as a continuation of Fixby today, are part of Rastrick, which was in the Brighouse Municipal Borough before 1974. These include what was The Clough House Inn, since reopened as The Four Sons Inn.

The nearest motorway junction is around two miles away from Fixby at Ainley Top.

Huddersfield Crematorium is in Fixby Road at the north side of Fixby and there are areas of woodland to the east.

Around Fixby

Fixby has a convenience store in Fixby Road.

Huddersfield Golf Club is based at Fixby Park, off Lightridge Road.

Huddersfield Golf Club website

Upper Fell Greave is a large wood in the area, crossed by public footpaths.

Fixby Junior and Infant School is in Lightridge Road.

Fixby Junior and Infant School website

St Francis Church and Community Hall, in Fixby Road, was dedicated in 1954.

St Francis Fixby website

Local government

Civil parish council

There is no civil parish council for this area, which prior to 1974 was in the Huddersfield County Borough.

Metropolitan district council

Fixby is in the Ashbrow ward of Kirklees Council.

Kirklees Council website

Travel

Bus services

via The Fairway, Broomfield Road and Fixby Road

384 385 Monday to Saturday daytime

↓ 384 ↑ 385
Huddersfield Bus station -
Birkby Birkby Lodge Road, Birkby Hall Road, Grimscar Avenue, Norwood Road -
Fartown Spaines Road, Greenhouse Road, Cawthorne Avenue, York Avenue -
Cowcliffe Cowcliffe Hill Road, Southlands Drive - Netheroyd Hill - Fixby The Fairway, Broomfield Road, Fixby Road - Bradley Bar
Brackenhall Asda store, Long Hill Road -
Sheepridge Wiggan Lane, Sheepridge Road - Fartown Woodhouse Hill, Abbey Road, Hammond Street - Hillhouse Bradford Road -
Huddersfield Bus station

385 is reverse of 384 route above.
Timetables at

Metro - 384

Metro - 385 Timetables (.pdf format) at

Stotts Coach Travel

via Lightridge Road

549

549Huddersfield Bus station - Birkby Wheathouse Road, Grimscar Avenue, - Cowcliffe Cowcliffe Hill Road, Netheroyd Hill Road - Netheroyd Hill - Fixby Lightridge Road -
Rastrick - Brighouse - Hipperholme - Halifax

Timetable at

Metro Search for operator's information at

First

Road travel

The area is bounded on its eastern side by the A641 Bradford Road and the A6107 between Bradley and Rastrick passes through the area.

Other places near Fixby: Bradley Brackenhall Netheroyd Hill

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