Editing Cleckheaton (section)

==Notable people==
*[[William Baines]] (composer/pianist) (1899–1922), lived here from 1913 to 1918, when his father (later replaced by himself) was a cinema pianist at the Picture Palace.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/feature-william-baines-and-flamborough-head/|title=Feature: William Baines and Flamborough Head|date=22 February 2022|publisher=British Music Society|access-date=8 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[Wilf Barber|Wilfred Barber]] (1901–1968), born Cleckheaton, Yorkshire and England cricketer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thepressnews.co.uk/press-news/wilf-barber-cut|title=Wilf Barber was a cut above!|date=3 February 2017|publisher=The Press| access-date=8 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[John Barlow (novelist)|John Barlow]], novelist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/people/how-the-spen-valley-inspired-batley-authors-new-crime-thriller-3301136|title=How the Spen Valley inspired Batley author's new crime thriller|date=11 July 2021|newspaper=Dewsbury Reporter| access-date=8 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[John Bentley (rugby)|John Bentley]], was Captain of Cleckheaton RUFC (part of Cleckheaton Sports Club).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spenvalleycivicsociety.org.uk/spen-fame-trail/jeff-butterfield-and-john-bentley  |title=Jeff Butterfield and John Bentley|publisher=Spen Valley Civic Society| access-date=8 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[Danny Cadamarteri]], [[Huddersfield Town F.C.|Huddersfield Town]] footballer, was born in Cleckheaton in 1979.<ref>{{cite web | title=Danny Cadamarteri | url=http://www.htafc.com/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10312~5701,00.html | work=First Team | publisher=Huddersfield Town FC | access-date=30 March 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523203051/http://www.htafc.com/page/ProfilesDetail/0%2C%2C10312~5701%2C00.html | archive-date=23 May 2009 }}</ref>
*[[Andrew Gale]], captain of [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire Cricket Club]], was educated at Whitcliffe Mount School and played for Cleckheaton C.C. (part of Cleckheaton Sports Club).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/cricket/9754265.yorkshire-skipper-gale-remembers-his-debt-to-cleckheaton/  |title=Yorkshire skipper Gale remembers his debt to Cleckheaton|date=11 June 2012|newspaper=Telegraph and Argus| access-date=8 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[Roger Hargreaves]], author of the [[Mr Men]] and [[Little Miss]]es series of books, was born in Cleckheaton in 1935.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Malam |first=John |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |title=Hargreaves, (Charles) Roger (1935–1988)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/76335.html |access-date=1 April 2008 |date=October 2005|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>
*[[Wendy Holden (author, born 1965)|Wendy Holden]], novelist, attended [[Whitcliffe Mount School]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Clayton |first1=Emma |title=An IT girl, an English teacher and Cleckheaton Library - author Wendy Holden on the road to bestselling success |url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15036838.an-it-girl-an-english-teacher-and-cleckheaton-library-author-wendy-holden-on-the-road-to-bestselling-success/ |accessdate=19 May 2020 |work=Bradford Telegraph and Argus |date=20 January 2017 |language=en}}</ref> 
*[[Frederick Lord (athlete)|Fred Lord]] (long-distance runner) (1879–1928), competed at the [[1908 Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69261 |title=Frederick Lord |work=Olympedia |access-date=8 March 2021}}</ref>
*[[Edward Wadsworth]] (artist) (1889–1949), "the only son of Fred Wadsworth and Hannah Smith, was born at Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, on 29th October 1889. His mother, who was an amateur painter, died of [[puerperal fever]] soon after giving birth to Edward. His father was a worsted-spinning industrialist who owned the firm E. Wadsworth & Sons."<ref>{{cite web|last=Spartacus Educational|title=Edward Wadsworth|url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTwadsworth.htm|access-date=14 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214090348/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTwadsworth.htm|archive-date=14 December 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>