Savile Town
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Savile Townis a suburb ofDewsbury,Kirklees,West Yorkshire,England,lying just to the south of theRiver Calder.
It consists of late Victorian housing, which varies between long terraces, semi-detached and detached housing. The mills on the banks of the Calder supplied employment to Savile Town for several decades; these were mostly woollen, and some cotton. As the mills closed, the area became run-down. Recent regeneration has seen most of the units now reoccupied.
History[edit]
The area is named for Thomas Savile, who once owned the townships of Dewsbury and Thornhill. He also gave his name to the bridge that leads to the town centre and founded Wakefield Cathedral and Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. There are several roads inDewsbury,OssettandWakefieldthat have "Savile" in their names. There were once two collieries named "Savile"; one on Owl Lane at the Dewsbury-Ossett border, and one nearMethley.Prior to 1910, Savile Town was part of theThornhillUrban District. In 1910, the district was abolished, and the area became part of the town of Dewsbury.[citation needed]
Demographics[edit]
Savile Town is perhaps most famous for its role in theBritish Muslimcommunity,[1]and has experienced significantwhite flight,with the2011 censusrecording a 93% Asian Muslim population and experiencing significant economic decline.[2]As reported in 2016, fewer than one per cent of the suburb's residents wereWhite British,the smallest indigenous percentage in the United Kingdom.[3]
The area is home to theMarkazi mosque,one of the largest mosques in Europe, which follows theTablighi Jamaatschool of thought.[4][5]
In a report published in 2017, the 'Kumon Y'all' Equality and Human Rights Commission quoted one person as saying "[White] people were afraid to come to Savile Town [because of the threat of racial abuse and violence]".[6]Author and political advisorEd Husaindescribed the area as becoming a "quiet caliphate" separate from wider society.[7]
Savile Town's demographics have been largely influenced by its industrial past, which required an influx of workers from India and Pakistan, who ended up migrating to the area due to demand from British factory owners.[citation needed]
Education[edit]
Savile Town has one primary school and one religioussecondary school.[8]
In 2021,Ofstedfailed theMarkazi Masjid secondary schoolafter a book namedIslam on Homosexuality,which called for the execution of homosexuals, was found in the school library. The school's leaders defended the book as being held for 'research' purposes, although the headteacher "was clear that it should not have been in the library." Ofsted said that the book 'breached theEquality Act 2010and undermined fundamental British values'. Their report showed that they had been asked to investigate the school after two complaints had been made. The February 2020 inspection rated it Inadequate, the worst rating which could be given. The 2021 report highlighted a number of other areas of concern, including a "weak culture of safeguarding".[9][10]
Notable residents[edit]
Mohammad Sidique Khan,the leader of the2005 London bombings,lived in Savile Town.[11]Britain's youngest convicted Islamist extremist, Hamaad Munshi and Britain's youngest suicide bomber, Talha Asmal were also from Savile Town.[12][11][13][14][15][16]Hamaad Munshi's brother, Hasaan Munshi was also from Savile Town and was believed to have fled the UK to join theIslamic Stateterrorist organisation in 2005.[17]
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi,a British lawyer, politician and member of theHouse of Lordsgrew up in Savile Town in the 1970s and 1980s.[18][19]
Football club[edit]
Savile Town is also home to aSunday leaguefootball club called Savile Town FC. It was most recently awarded FA Charted Development Club Of The Year[when?].Its home ground is Savile Town Park on Park Road.
References[edit]
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- ^Hirst, Andy; Rinne, Sinni (2017)."RESEARCH REPORT: Pilot evaluation of Kumon Y'all befriending project"(PDF).Equality and Human Rights Commission.
- ^"Mixed blessings of immigration in God's own country".Financial Times.Retrieved2 November2018.
- ^"Muslime in Europa"(in German). Zmo.de. 1 July 2002.Retrieved31 July2014.
- ^Wainwright, Martin (10 November 2005)."Jihad videos left in mosques in tube bomber's town".The Guardian.Retrieved7 October2018.
- ^Hirst, Andy; Rinne, Sinni (2017)."RESEARCH REPORT: Pilot evaluation of Kumon Y'all befriending project"(PDF).Equality and Human Rights Commission.
- ^Shute, Joe (6 June 2021)."'Multiculturalism is a noble aim that has gone wrong'".The Telegraph.ISSN0307-1235.Retrieved3 February2022.
- ^"Education | League Tables | Secondary schools in Kirklees".BBC News. 10 January 2008.Retrieved31 July2014.
- ^Lavigueur, Nick (21 July 2021)."Ofsted find book in Dewsbury school calling for gay people to be killed".YorkshireLive.
- ^"School fails its Ofsted after inspectors find book calling for gay people to be executed in its library".Telegraph and Argus. 22 July 2021.Retrieved30 July2021.
- ^abHalliday, Josh."'Open outpouring of grief' in home town of Britain's youngest suicide bomber ".The Guardian.Retrieved5 September2015.
- ^"Suicide bombing seems to have become a new Yorkshire tradition".The Spectator.20 June 2015. Archived fromthe originalon 20 June 2015.Retrieved5 September2015.
- ^"Two terrorism suspects arrested in Yorkshire freed without charge".The Guardian.8 April 2018.Retrieved3 February2022.
- ^"Computer terror teenager jailed".19 September 2008.Retrieved3 February2022.
- ^"Fears grow for friend of Dewsbury boy believed to be latest Isis suicide bomber".The Guardian.15 June 2015.Retrieved3 February2022.
- ^"UK's youngest terrorist convicted of bomb plot".The Independent.18 August 2008.Retrieved3 February2022.
- ^"Brother of UK's youngest convicted terrorist feared to have joined Isis".The Guardian.7 April 2015.Retrieved3 February2022.
- ^Khaleeli, Homa (25 March 2017)."Sayeeda Warsi: 'Where are my grandkids going to call home? What world will they grow up in?'".The Guardian.Retrieved1 February2022.
- ^Jaffer, Nabeelah (15 September 2017)."Notion within a nation".Times Literary Supplement.Retrieved1 February2022.
