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A modern covered Market Hall (information from huddersfieldgem)

The George, Huddersfield's premier hotel for over 250 years, has officially been known as the George Inn or the George Hotel during its long existence, but has always been known to the inhabitants of the town and surrounding areas as simply 'the George'. If a rendezvous is arranged at the George there is no possibility of confusion; it is part of our heritage, our grandparents, their grandparents and their grandparents before them have all resorted to the George. Nor is such familiarity restricted to a purely local area, all who arrive in the town by train must be aware of its substantial and handsome presence.

The present building is the third to have housed the George, and the history of those buildings will take us back some three hundred years.

Roman Times
Earliest information about Huddersfield is from Roman historians who make mention of fierce and warlike Brigantes that occupied all the north of England.
Of the 40 nations that inhabited Britain at the time these were the most numerous and powerful.
They were eventually made subjects of Rome by Petilius Cerealis c. AD 75.

In January, 1831, Charlotte was sent to school again. This time she went as a pupil to Miss W-, who lived at Roe Head, a cheerful roomy country house, standing a little apart in a field, on the right of the road from Leeds to Huddersfield.