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Dewsbury Moor

Geography of DewsburyHeavy Woollen DistrictPopulated places in West YorkshireUse British English from October 2019
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Dewsbury Moor is a district of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies to the west of the Dewsbury town centre. The population is around 5,650. Crime rates are higher than the national average.Dewsbury Moor Amateur Rugby league Football Club is based on Heckmondwike Road and has three playing fields nearby. The rugby club has turned out several notable rugby league professionals including Ryan Sheridan, Matt Diskin, Dean Lawford, Sam Burgess, Luke Burgess, George Burgess and Tom Burgess. There are two schools, Knowles Hill Infant and Nursery School on Knowles Hill Road, and Westmoor Junior School on Church Lane.The area was at the centre of national media and public attention in early 2008, when nine-year-old Shannon Matthews disappeared from near her home, in Dewsbury Moor, on the afternoon of 19 February 2008. After a 24-day search, she was found alive on 14 March 2008 at a flat in Batley Carr. Michael Donavan, the man whose flat she was found in, was (along with Shannon's mother Karen) later jailed for eight years for abduction and false imprisonment.

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Dewsbury Moor
Moorcroft Road, Kirklees Northorpe

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WF13 4EA Kirklees, Northorpe
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Westborough High School, Dewsbury

Westborough High School is a mixed secondary school located in Westborough, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated on Oxford Road, and shares its grounds with St John Fisher Catholic High School. The school was founded in the 1960s and has had close links with the other nearby secondary schools. The current (2013) headteacher of Westborough is Jennifer Napper The school admits pupils from the ages of 11–16. Its catchment areas are Ravensthorpe, Savile Town and the local areas of Boothroyd. Over the past 5 years the school's music department, in the new performing arts block at Westborough, has developed a public profile with concerts performed by pupils in the summer and winter. Bands originating at Westborough are the Samba Band and Drumline, which have performed in Batley Park, York and on Sky TV during a rugby match.Westborough High School achieved the third successive year of record rises in GCSE results, with 54% of pupils gaining 5 or more GCSE passes at A* to C, and 34% of these being in English and Maths, a 6% rise on last year, exceeding a 30% target set by the Government.In 2011 Birkdale High School was formally closed, with Westborough High School taking over its site. Some pupils from Birkdale transferred to the Westborough campus immdemiately. However the former Birkdale High School campus was still used to educate a number of pupils under Westborough High School management, and renamed as the Halifax Road Campus. The Halifax Road Campus closed down when the final set of year 11 students finished their GCSEs in 2014.