Heckmondwike
Sign in to saveHeckmondwike is a town in the Kirklees district, West Yorkshire, England, south west of Leeds. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is close to Cleckheaton and Liversedge. It is in the Spen Valley parliamentary constituency, and had an estimated population of 16,986 at the 2011 Census increasing to 18,149 at the 2021 Census. Heckmondwike forms part of the Heavy Woollen District.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Heckmondwike
- UK place.population
- 18,149
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Kirklees
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Yorkshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Spen Valley
- UK place.post_town
- HECKMONDWIKE
- UK place.postcode_district
- WF16
- UK place.postcode_area
- WF
- UK place.dial_code
- 01924
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE216234
- UK place.static_image_name
- Clock, Market Street - geograph.org.uk - 1468223.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Clock in Heckmondwike's centre, erected in 1863 to commemorate the marriage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
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Heckmondwike is a town in the Kirklees district, West Yorkshire, England, south west of Leeds. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is close to Cleckheaton and Liversedge. It is in the Spen Valley parliamentary constituency, and had an estimated population of 16,986 at the 2011 Census increasing to 18,149 at the 2021 Census. Heckmondwike forms part of the Heavy Woollen District.
==Toponymy== The origins of Heckmondwike are in Old English. First recorded as Hedmundewic in the Domesday Book of 1086, Hedmundewic in 1166, and as Hecmundewik sometime in the 13th century, the name seems to be from *Hēahmundes wīc, or 'Heahmund's dairy-farm'.
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