| Cowlersley | |
|---|---|
 Manchester Road, Cowersley (2008) | |
  Cowlersley Location within West Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SE108153 |
| Metropolitan borough | |
| Metropolitan county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HUDDERSFIELD |
| Postcode district | HD4 |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| UK Parliament | |
Cowlersley is a district 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Milnsbridge and Linthwaite and south of the A62 and the River Colne.[1] The name Cowlersley means 'a charcoal burner's wood' and was first recorded in 1226.[2]
The district has a primary school, Woodside Green, which was inspected by Ofsted in 2022 and listed as "Good".
Its main claim to fame is that the former British prime minister Harold Wilson grew up in Cowlersley,[3] at 4 Warneford Road.
- ^ "288" (Map). Bradford & Huddersfield. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319244852.
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 126. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
- ^ Sutcliffe, Robert (18 October 2014). "Power house: 50 years ago this week Huddersfield's Harold Wilson became Prime Minister - but who lives in his childhood Cowlersley home today?". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 7 March 2017.