Farnley Tyas

But now a small pipe organ is being used to accompany the world-famous choir of King's College, Cambridge - a choir set up more than six centuries ago by Heny VI. The instrument, owned by Richard Wood of Farnley Tyas, is on loan to the 15th century ...

A number of possible routes were ridden by mountain bikers including Dale Casper from Albion Cycles in Thongsbridge. Dale, a qualified British Cycling mountain bike leader, said the land around Farnley Tyas, owned by Farnley Estates, could be great for ...

Opponents of a huge country park plan have dubbed it a “Trojan horse” for housing in the green belt. The plan to create more outdoor facilities on land around Farnley Tyas was revealed by Farnley Estates last June. The land owning Sykes family said ...

Farnley Tyas has been in the news headlines over the last year over ambitious plans to turn a large part of the countryside surrounding the village into a country park. The £150m proposal by the Farnley Estates remains in the early stages but will ...

For the ladies of the village's Women's Institute are marking the centenary of the movement by offering a friendly cuppa to anyone passing the village bus shelter. It's a fitting location, as the shelter was built decades ago thanks to the sterling ...

Nicola Cantrell, from the Farnley Tyas Community Group, said: "I hope that this is, as they would like us to believe, a development opportunity for Kirklees and the wider area that it's not a cynical view just to use green belt land for housing ...