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Brackenhall, Huddersfield — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Brackenhall is a district of Huddersfield two miles north of the town centre, lying between Fixby and Sheepridge in West Yorkshire.
About Brackenhall
Where to stay in Brackenhall
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Fixby House and Ivy House are the district's listed names, neither of them a place to sleep, and the practical answer for a visitor is a room in Huddersfield two miles south. Brackenhall is housing. What it does give is quiet ground between Fixby and Sheepridge, with St Hilda's Church at Cowcliffe and St Francis' Church and Community Hall at Fixby both reachable without going near the town centre.
About Brackenhall
What are the main landmarks in Brackenhall?
Two churches and two houses. St Hilda's Church stands at Cowcliffe and St Francis' Church and Community Hall serves Fixby, which ties both of the district's places of worship to the neighbouring names rather than to Brackenhall itself. Ivy House is listed.
So is Fixby House, which repeats the name of the neighbour again, and between the four there is no museum, no monument and nothing that asks for a full day.
What is the history of Brackenhall?
The name reaches the record without a founding year attached, and Brackenhall enters it as a district of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire rather than as a settlement with a charter of its own. Its buildings are the evidence. Ivy House and Fixby House carry the listings, St Hilda's Church at Cowcliffe and St Francis' Church and Community Hall at Fixby carry the parish work, and the ground between Fixby and Sheepridge, two miles north of the town centre in England, holds everything else.
Where is Brackenhall?
Two miles of Huddersfield separate Brackenhall from the town centre, with Fixby on one side, Sheepridge on the other and Cowcliffe close by.
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Updated September 2026