The Mill, Batley The Mill Batley is one of the UK's largest retail mills and is a factory outlet or shopping village with many national & independent fashion & homeware operators.

St Paul's church in the Hanging Heaton area of Batley.

Batley includes the districts of Batley Carr, Carlinghow, Cross Bank, Hanging Heaton, Healey, Lamplands, Carlton Grange Mount Pleasant, Soothill, Staincliffe, Upper Batley and White Lee.

As Batley shares boundaries with both Dewsbury and Heckmondwike, parts of Batley Carr, Hanging Heaton and Staincliffe are part of Dewsbury, while part of White Lee is in Heckmondwike.

Batley Carr, Hanging Heaton and Staincliffe have areas which lie in both Dewsbury and neighbouring Batley.

Batley is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

Batley is part of a special EU transformation zone.

The name Batley is derived from Danish, meaning either valley or homestead of bats, or more likely, homestead of the locally prominent Batte family.

Despite Batley being an ancient settlement, this is all that remains of any great antiquity.

The South Asian population of Batley is now around 30 %.

Batley is home to a modest commercial and retail centre along Commercial Street.

Batley Shopping Centre is a small shopping centre which has become somewhat rundown since being acquired by Tesco.

The town is home to the professional rugby league club Batley RLFC And junior football club Batley Juniors F. C.

( formely Carlinghow Boys F. C ) Carlinghow is also located in Batley

Wilton Park ( Batley Park ) is a large park between the town centre and Birstall.

The museum ( originally the Wilton Park Museum ) is named after its first curator Walter Bagshaw, a Batley councillor and extensive traveller.

In cricket, Batley has several local teams, and is also part of the cricket association for the Heavy Woollen District.

The Heavy Woollen Cup can now be entered by any team within 18 miles of Batley, but there is an upper limit of 64 teams.

The South Asian population of Batley is now around 30 %.

There is an area of Ossett known as Healey, which is identical in name to the Batley district of Healey ; the Ossett area is sometimes referred to as " Healey Mills " due to the very large congregation of mills that once existed in that area.

In its grounds are a butterfly house, the Milner K. Ford Observatory ( built in 1966 and home to the Batley & Spenborough Astronomical Society ) and Bagshaw Museum.

Ian Millward returned as the club's head coach for 2010, Leigh took advantage of their reprieve and had a terrific season, finishing in third place in the Co-Operative Championship before losing at home in the play-offs to Sheffield Eagles, whilst also reaching the semi finals of the Northern Rail Cup before being knocked out by eventual winners Batley Bulldogs.

The conception of The Mill, Batley in 2000 provided a consistent contribution to the area's employment and economic status.

Jowett switched to manufacturing aircraft parts for the Blackburn & General Aircraft Company in a former woollen mill at Howden Clough, Birstall, near Batley.

* Batley & Dewsbury Towns ' Management Association

* Website of Batley & Spenborough Astronomical Society

* Batley & Dewsbury Towns ' Management Association

In 1864, the GNR acquired BS & MCR ( Boston to Sleaford ) and the Bourn and Essendine lines, leased the West Yorkshire ( Wakefield to Leeds with branches to Batley and Ossett ) and took a one third share in the Methley Joint ( Castleford to Lofthouse & Outwood ).

The company owns the right to the names and designs of a number of former British locomotive manufacturers including Andrew Barclay, Avonside Engine Company, North British Locomotive Company, Greenwood and Batley, Hudswell Clarke, John Fowler & Co., Kerr Stuart, Kitson & Co., and Manning Wardle – it also maintains, and supplies spare parts for these brands.

* Staincliffe & Batley Carr

Messrs. Gregson, Batley and King were appointed the architects of the facility and Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. were awarded the contract for construction.

The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the seats of Batley and Morley, Brighouse and Spenborough & Dewsbury.

Batley Grammar School was founded in 1612 by the Rev.

* Batley Business And Enterprise College, formerly known as Batley High School for Boys, founded 1959 which was opened by Sir John Hunt

* Batley Girls ' High School, a Visual Arts College since 2004

* Batley Grammar School, founded in 1612

His father Daniel Salt was a drysalter, and then a farmer, and sent Titus to a school in Batley, identified in some sources as Batley Grammar School.

Category: People educated at Batley Grammar School

Batley College of Art and Design, which is part of Dewsbury College, has a strong reputation for print and textile-based art work, whilst St John Fisher Catholic High School is a specialist Sports College and is one of the few schools in the area with a Sixth Form.

He was educated at Batley Grammar School and Manchester Polytechnic, which he left in 1991 to go to Istanbul to teach English.

Category: People educated at Batley Grammar School

* Batley Grammar School, Batley, West Yorkshire – Brigid Tullie

Dawson attended Batley Grammar School and Exeter University.

In 1917, architect Claude Batley became a visiting professor ; he was Principal of the School from 1923 to 1943, and is commemorated in the Claude Batley Architectural Gallery for architectural exhibitions, opened in 1996.

Batley Grammar School is a co-educational free school located at Carlinghow Hill in Upper Batley, West Yorkshire, England.

Batley Grammar School is a member of the Headmasters ' and Headmistresses ' Conference.

* Official website of Batley Grammar School