Holme township is a mountainous moorland, situated on an eminence at the head of the valley of Holmfirth. and extends to the borders of Cheshire, 3 miles south-west from Holmfirth and 9 south-south-west from Huddersfield, and gives name to the grave ship of Holme, which also comprises the townships of Austonley, Cartworth. Fulstone, Hepworth. Upper Thong and Wooldale. Holme township is governed by a Local Board of Health of six members. The poor’s estate yields £14 yearly. This forms part of the manor of Wakefield, of which Lord Conyers is lord. The principal landowners are Messrs. Greame, Green, Moorhouse, Roberts and Wimpenny. The area is 1,728 acres, the greater part of it uncultivated; rateable value £2,786; and the population in 1871 was 724.

The township school for boys & girls (now closed) has an endowment of £16 a year & a house for the master.

Board schools have just been erected; William Pettitt, master; Miss Eliza Marsden, infants’ mistress.