Kirklees

Kirklees is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire in England. Administrative center is the city of Huddersfield. Other important towns in the Borough are Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Denby Dale, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holme Valley, Holmfirth, Kirkburton, Marsden, Meltham and Mirfield. Partnerships with the district of Unna in Germany (since 1967) and Bielsko- Biala in Poland.

The reorganization of the limits and the capabilities of local authorities led in 1974 to form the Metropolitan Borough. Were fused while the County Boroughs Huddersfield and Dewsbury, the Municipal Boroughs Batley and Spenborough and the Urban Districts Colne Valley, Denby Dale, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Kirkburton, Meltham and Mirfield. These authorities previously belonged to the county of West Riding of Yorkshire.

1986 Kirklees was actually a Unitary Authority, as the central government dissolved the overall management of West Yorkshire. Kirklees was for ceremonial purposes part of West Yorkshire, as well as for individual higher-level tasks such as police, fire and public transport.

Kirklees is the largest urban populous county in England without city status. The merger of two County Boroughs meant that the district does not have a dominant center. At the beginning of the 1990s were loud demands to share Kirklees into two approximately equal halves. However, when local government reform in 1996, nothing changed.