* 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

Both had attended the Batley College of Art but they had no pottery making experience.

In later life, Batley sponsored the Lawrence Batley Seniors Tournament ( a veterans golf competition ), the Lawrence Batley Stand at the Galpharm Stadium for its first 10 years, the Lawrence Batley Theatre and the National Arts Education Archive at Bretton Hall College ( now part of the University of Leeds ).

Batley Art Gallery, in the Batley Library building, features contemporary art, craft and photography.

Methodism came to Batley in the 1740s and took a strong hold in the town which continued into the 20th century.

A toll road built in 1832 between Gomersal and Dewsbury had a branch to Batley ( the present day Branch Road ) which allowed for " the growing volumes of wool, cloth and coal " to be transported.

During the late 19th century, Batley was the centre of the " shoddy trade " in which wool rags and clothes were recycled by reweaving them into blankets, carpets, uniforms.

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

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.

Monty Python's Flying Circus had a series of recurring sketches in which the members of the Batley Ladies Townswomen's Guild would present famous plays or musicals, or reenact various historical battles, simply by charging at each other, swinging purses and wrestling in the mud.

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

The Lawrence Batley Theatre is a theatre in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England which offers drama, music, dance and comedy.

Helped by her husband, Bruce Firth, they have sold Batley's Cash and Carry and also sold L. Batley Pet Products, one of the leading pet food distributors in the UK, which the family started after Cash and Carry was sold.

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

Rovers made a bright start and won their opening three fixtures, however, after beating Batley in November, Rovers lost 24 straight games and won only once more in the rest of the season, by which time Stan Smith had left the club.

The season ended with a narrow defeat in the divisional play-off final to local rivals Batley Bulldogs which would consign them to another season in National League 2.

Claude Batley ( 1879 in Ipswich-March 20, 1956, Bombay ) was an English architect who left for India in 1913 and started a successful practice there in 1917 with Gregson and King, a firm of architects which is still extant under the name of Gregson, Batley and King.

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 %.

* The Batley village of Hanging Heaton is home to Mill Lane J, I & EY School.

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

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.

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 %.

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.

Renovated former textile mills form the major part of shopping in Batley.

Dewsbury is part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area, and the natural boundaries of the town are not well defined, with built up areas of the town running into neighbouring Batley, Heckmondwike and Ossett.

For elections to the UK parliament, Cleckheaton ward forms part of Batley and Spen borough constituency.

In 1993 six teams were invited to take part in an inaugural European Clubs Championship, the six teams consisted of two from the USSR ; Tiraspol and Moscow Magicians, two from France ; Carcassonne and XIII Catalan and Batley and Huddersfield.

The West Yorkshire shoddy industry in towns such as Batley and Dewsbury, lasted from the early 19th century to at least 1914.

* Batley & Dewsbury Towns ' Management Association

* Batley & Dewsbury Towns ' Management Association

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Within this district were Barnsley, Batley, Bradford, Brighouse, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield, Keighley, Leeds, Morley, Ossett, Pontefract, Pudsey, Rotherham, Sheffield, Todmorden ( partly in Lancashire until 1888 when it became wholly in Yorkshire where it remains to this day ) and Wakefield.

Within a five mile radius of the settlement lie the town centres of Morley, Leeds, Batley, Dewsbury, Ossett and Wakefield.

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

Dewsbury, Batley, Heckmondwike and Ossett are the core of the area.

There is only one road sign in the whole area directing motorists towards Liversedge: on the A649 Halifax Road from Bailiff Bridge, with no directions from either the Huddersfield or Dewsbury and Batley sides of the settlement.

Ironically it was local rivals Batley who helped Dewsbury gain election to the Northern Union.

* Frank Gallagher won caps for England while at Batley 1923 Other Nations, 1924 Other Nations, 1925 Wales ( 2 matches ), 1926 Wales, Other Nations, 1927 Wales, while at Leeds 1928 Wales, and won caps for Great Britain while at Dewsbury 1920 Australia ( 3 matches ), 1921 – 22 Australia, while at Batley 1924 Australia ( 3 matches ), New Zealand ( 3 matches ), 1926-27 New Zealand ( 2 matches )

* Nathan Graham won caps for Scotland while at Bradford Bulls, Dewsbury, Featherstone Rovers, and Batley Bulldogs1998 … 2004 7-caps + 3-caps ( sub )

Many large towns with rugby league traditions do not have football teams as a result of the monopoly on local interest: for example, St Helens, Whitehaven, Warrington, Keighley, Castleford, Dewsbury, Batley and, until recently, Wakefield.