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Almondbury, a town, a township, and an extensive parish and ward in the borough of Huddersfield, W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands near the Colne river, and is 1 mile E of Fennybridge station on the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles SE of Huddersfield. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Huddersfield, and was anciently called Albanbury. It is supposed by some antiquaries to have been the Campodunum of the Romans; and it seems certainly to have been a seat of the kings of Northumbria. An ancient castle crowned an eminence here, strongly fortified by double wall and trenches, and interiorly disposed in outer and inner courts; and a few traces of this still exist. The township includes also the hamlets of Lowerhouses, Fennybridge, Castlehillside, Oaks, Newsome, and Thorpe. Acreage, 2636; population of the civil parish, 14,855 ; of the ecclesiastical, 6157. A large proportion of the inhabitants are employed in woollen factories, and in the making of mohair, sealskin, and fancy vestings. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; net value, £250 with residence. The church is in the Perpendicular English style. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Free Methodists. A free grammar school was founded in the time of James I., and has an endowment of £250 ; there are other charities amounting to £300.
