Towngate, Newsome, Almondbury
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Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 11 Nov 2005
This is the village street, running parallel with Newsome Road which swoops over the hill from Huddersfield to Berry Brow. Newsome Road did not exist until after 1850 and it bypassed the village.