That’s show business
Mirfield is on the A644 between Brighouse and Dewsbury.
Population: 18,621 (2002 census)
The Mirfield Show is held annually at the Huddersfield Road Showground on the third Sunday in August.
Mirfield Theological College, the College of the Resurrection was where Rowan Williams, now Archbishop of Canterbury, lectured from 1976 for two years.
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Hide AdArchbishop Trevor Huddleston spent his last days in Mirfield at the Community of the Resurrection.
Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë were educated at Roe Head School in Mirfield. Charlotte was both pupil and mistress there. Anne later became governess to the Ingham children at Blake Hall in Mirfield.