Chronology of Acts
A list of known Local Acts (including Provisional Orders) and Parliamentary Acts relating to Huddersfield and the surrounding area.
1770s
1780s
1790s
1800s
1810s
- Lindley Enclosure Act of 1812
- Longwood and Deanhead Enclosure Act of 1813
- An Act for Building a Church or Chapel of Ease in the Parish of Huddersfield (1816)
- Meltham Enclosure Act of 1817
- Lockwood and Meltham Turnpike Trust Act of 1818
1820s
- Golcar Enclosure Act of 1820
- Huddersfield Lighting, Watching and Cleansing Act of 1820 (which granted powers to the Commissioners for Lighting, Watching and Cleansing)
- Greenfield and Shepley Lane Head Turnpike Trust Act of 1823
- Lockwood and Meltham Turnpike Trust Act of 1825
- Meltham and Wessenden Head Turnpike Trust Act of 1825
- Netherthong Enclosure Act of 1826
- Huddersfield Water Act of 1827
- Graveship of Holme Enclosure Act of 1828
1830s
1840s
- Huddersfield Water Works Act of 1845
- Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Act of 1845
- Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway Act of 1845
- Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Huddersfield Diversion and Cooper Bridge Branch) Act of 1846
- Huddersfield Improvement Act of 1848 (which granted powers to the Huddersfield Improvement Commissioners)
1850s
- Huddersfield Burial Ground Act of 1852
- Lockwood and Meltham Turnpike Road Act of 1852
- Huddersfield Burial Ground Amendment Act of 1856
1860s
- Huddersfield Gas Act of 1861
- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Dewsbury, &c. Branches) Act of 1861 (inc. Meltham Branch Line)
- Boundary Act of 1868 (which extended the boundary of the Parliamentary Borough of Huddersfield)
- Huddersfield Water Act of 1869
- Local Government Supplemental Act of 1869
1870s
- Huddersfield Waterworks Act of 1871
- Huddersfield Improvement Act of 1871
- Longwood Gas Act of 1875
- Slaithwaite Gas Act of 1875
- Huddersfield Waterworks and Improvement Act of 1876
1880s
- Huddersfield Improvement Act of 1880
- Huddersfield Corporation Act of 1882
- Kirkheaton, Dalton and Lepton Gas Act of 1887
- Deanhead Commissioners Act of 1889
1890s
- Huddersfield Tramways and Improvement Act of 1890
- Huddersfield Corporation Waterworks Act of 1890
- Huddersfield Electric Lighting Order of 1890
- Borough of Huddersfield Order of 1890
- Huddersfield Waterworks Tramroad Act of 1894
- Huddersfield Waterworks Act of 1896
- Huddersfield Electric Lighting Order of 1896
- Huddersfield Corporation Act of 1897
- Huddersfield Corporation Tramways Order of 1897
- Huddersfield Corporation Tramways Order of 1898
1900s
- Huddersfield Corporation Tramways Order of 1900
- Huddersfield Corporation Tramways Act of 1900
- Huddersfield Corporation Act of 1902
- Huddersfield Corporation Tramways Order of 1903
- Huddersfield (Extension to Linthwaite) Electric Lighting Order of 1903
- Huddersfield (Extension to Golcar) Electric Lighting Order of 1903
- Huddersfield Corporation Act of 1906
- Huddersfield Corporation Tramways Order of 1907
- Huddersfield Water Act of 1908
- Ravensthorpe Urban District Council Act of 1908
1910s
- Huddersfield Corporation Tramways Order of 1910
- Huddersfield (Extension to South Crosland) Electric Lighting Order of 1903
- Huddersfield Corporation Act of 1913
- Huddersfield Corporation Gas Act of 1919
1920s
- Huddersfield Corporation (General Powers) Act of 1920
- Huddersfield Corporation (Lands) Act of 1920 (which granted powers to purchase the Ramsden Estate)
1930s
- Huddersfield Corporation Act of 1936
- Huddersfield Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Act of 1936
- Huddersfield Corporation Act of 1937
1940s
1950s
1960s
- Huddersfield Corporation Act of 1965 (for the construction of Scammonden Reservoir)