HOLMEBRIDGE is a village and ecclesiastical parish formed in 1843 out of the parish of Almondbury, and includes the townships of Austonley and Holme, in the southern division of the Riding, upper division of Agbrigg wapentake, petty sessional division and county court district of Holmfirth. union and rural deanery of Huddersfield, Craven archdeaconry and diocese of Ripon, 1 ½ miles southwest from Holmfirth railway station, 7 ½ south-west from Huddersfield and the like distance south-west from Almondbury village. The river Holme flows through. The church of St. David is a stone structure erected in 1840, in the Early Pointed style, and has square embattled tower and 1 bell. The register dates from the year 1840. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £190 with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Almondbury and held by the Rev. James Theodore Wilkinson M.A., of St.John’s College, Cambridge. The landowners are the Messrs. Roberts and Miss Gartside. The area of the ecclesiastical parish is 4,883: the population in 1871 was 2,259.

National school (mixed), George Henry Ingham, master; Miss Lucy Glenday, mistress.