Hade Edge
Hade Edge is a small village to the south of Holmfirth and south-west of Hepworth in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the parish of Holme Valley and the metropolitan borough of Kirklees.
Although it started as a fairly small hamlet it has grown considerably throughout the 1980s and 1990s with new housing.
History
School
The first school opened in 1882 in the Sunday School, not moving to the current building until the early 1900s. The present school, Hade Edge Junior and Infant and Nursery School, is coeducational and has four classes.Shops
There was a Co-op store on the corner of Greave Road and Dunford road which closed in the 1950s. A fish and chip shop at the top of Greave road closed soon after. A grocery store and post office was the last to close in 1989. A sweet shop was operated from a private house opposite the band room, a focus for village children after school.Church
There was a church in Magnum that was demolished in the 1950s, along with most of the other buildings. The village is in the Parish of Holy Trinity, Holmfirth and there is a Methodist Church on Dunford Road.Public Houses
At the peak there were 8 pubs in the area serving the many quarry workers, long gone pubs now demolished, or turned into residences, included the Sportsman, Roundclose, Junction, Weathercock and Moorcock Inns and the Road End Pub.Quarrying
By 1861 Magnum Bonum Quarry employed over 60 people producing stone blocks for buildings and stone flagstones for railway station platforms. A hamlet of workers homes developed with a church and public house. Other quarries were Sans Pareil and Ne Plus Ultra.The nearest registered common land is Magnum Bonum, about half a mile south of the village.