Editing Holmfirth (section)

===Flooding===
{{Main|Holmfirth floods}}
There are a number of instances when [[flood]]ing has occurred in the Holme Valley affecting Holmfirth and other settlements in the valley. The earliest recorded Holmfirth flood was in 1738<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ckcricketheritage.org.uk/southkirklees/holmfirth/docs/holmfirth_downyourway.pdf|title=Cricket Heritage of Holmfirth|website=Ckcricketheritage.org.uk|access-date=3 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816081202/http://www.ckcricketheritage.org.uk/southkirklees/holmfirth/docs/holmfirth_downyourway.pdf|archive-date=16 August 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the most recent was 1944. The most severe flood occurred early on the morning of 5 February 1852, when the embankment of the Bilberry Reservoir collapsed causing the deaths of 81 people. Following a severe storm in 1777 the [[River Holme]] burst its banks, sweeping away people and property with the loss of three lives; the stone church built in 1476, was also swept away. A storm in 1821 again caused the river to burst its banks. The flooding on the night of 29 May 1944 was not nationally reported and it was then overshadowed by the [[Normandy landings|D-Day landings]] the following week.

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File:HolmfirthCentral(RLH)2007-03-21(1Mb).jpg| View across Holmfirth to [[Castle Hill, Huddersfield|Castle Hill]], Huddersfield, taken from Dunsley Bank Road
File:Holmfirth2.jpg|Holmfirth centre showing the parish church
File:Lodge's Supermarket (now derelict) - geograph.org.uk - 500159.jpg|Former supermarket built spanning the [[River Holme]]
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