Batley

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Batley
Town
Clockwise from top: Batley Library and War Memorial, All Saints' Church, Union Rooms on Hick Lane, Commercial Street, Town Hall
Batley Location within West Yorkshire
Population	44,505 (2021 Census)[1]
OS grid reference	SE245245
Metropolitan borough	Kirklees
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Areas of the town	List Batley Carr Carlinghow Hanging Heaton (part) Healey Soothill Staincliffe
Post town	BATLEY
Postcode district	WF17
Dialling code	01924
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Dewsbury and Batley
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°43′00″N 01°38′08″W / 53.71667°N 1.63556°W / 53.71667; -1.63556

Batley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield, in the Heavy Woollen District. In 2011, the population was 48,730.^[2]

Batley Town Hall, designed in the neoclassical style, was paid for by public subscription and opened as the local mechanics' institute in 1854. The town was the home of Batley Variety Club, which was frequented by many notable musical acts, from 1967 onwards.