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.

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

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.

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.

Jamie Batley was also told by the Rock that he would not be returning as head coach ,.

* Ian Preece, Batley Bulldogs Rugby League footballer, and also played for Knottingley Rockware ARLFC.

Batley also has a pet spider named Webster.

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.

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 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.

She is a 10HP, 3 ton design also from Greenwood and Batley.

There were also constituencies of Batley and Morley ( created 1918 ) and Pudsey ( created 1885, replaced by Pudsey and Otley 1918-1950 ).

There were also constituencies of Batley and Morley, and Pudsey.

There were also constituencies of Batley and Morley and Pudsey and Otley.

There were also constituencies of Batley and Morley ( created 1918 ) and Pudsey and Otley ( created 1918 replacing Pudsey ).

There were also constituencies of Batley and Morley ( created 1918 ) and Pudsey and Otley ( created 1918, replacing Pudsey ).

Featherstone avenged their Brewery Field defeat as they won 42 – 30 at Post Office Road, Whitehaven became the only club to do the double over the Crusaders during the season as the match at Brewery Field ended 22 – 26, and the Crusaders were also on the wrong end of a 30 – 22 scoreline against Batley Bulldogs, who were eventually to be relegated.

In recent years, the church has grown and has helped to replant Batley Evangelical Church and also started a new church plant in Roundhay, north Leeds.

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

The Industrial Revolution reached Batley in 1796 with the arrival of its first water powered mills for carding and spinning.

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.

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

Batley was used for location filming of the fictional town of Barfield in the 1955 film Value for Money, starring John Gregson and Diana Dors.

* Portal for general information about Batley

* Website of Batley Ladies CircleLadies Circle a club for women aged 18 to 45

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.

Also in that year, He wrote " Watching The Hours Go By " for Australian singer Noeleen Batley but it was only released as a B-side.

* George Brown ( rugby league ), rugby league footballer of the 1940s, for England, and Batley

He was eventually arrested at the Three Houses Inn in Sandal Magna near Wakefield and tried for the murder of Darcy Fletcher, a constable who had tried to arrest him near Howley Hall in Batley.

The machinery used for the production of Lebel barrels was purchased from the British firm of Greenwood and Batley.

* Robert Kelly ( rugby league ), former rugby league footballer of the 1950s for Great Britain, Keighley, Wakefield Trinity, and Batley

By the closing date of 8 September 1998, WF 107 Ltd ( based in Wakefield ), Henna FM Ltd ( based in Batley providing Asian music ) and Ridings FM had applied to the Radio Authority for the licence.

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 ).

In a quiet time for Trinity, they won only one Yorkshire Cup ( in 1924 – 25 against Batley ) and lost four Yorkshire Cups.