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'''Brackenhall''' is a district of [[Huddersfield]], [[West Yorkshire]], [[England]] located 2 miles (3&nbsp;km) north of Huddersfield town centre between [[Fixby]] and [[Sheepridge, Huddersfield|Sheepridge]].<ref>{{cite map|title = Bradford & Huddersfield|map =288 |date =2015 |scale =1:25,000 |series =Explorer |publisher= Ordnance Survey|isbn = 9780319244852 }}</ref>

==History==
The estate was created in the 1930s when Huddersfield Town Council moved all residents from the rundown homes in the town centre to new estate.<ref>{{cite news|title=No place like home?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2006/10/16/brackenhall_ourhouse_feature.shtml|accessdate=25 July 2017|work=BBC Bradford & West Yorkshire|date=24 October 2008}}</ref> Since the 1960s, the estate was beset with social problems which culminated in a riot in July 1992 when police carried out a drugs raid at the PheonixPhoenix pub. The following night, 200 youths clashed with police and there were many injuries. This was one of the worst disturbances which occurred in a wave of rioting across Britain during the summer of 1992, with similar disturbances also taking place in towns including [[Blackburn]] and [[Burnley]] across the [[Lancashire]] border.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pithers|first1=Malcolm|title=Drugs raid led to night of violence|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/drugs-raid-led-to-night-of-violence-1535057.html|accessdate=25 July 2017|work=The Independent|date=24 July 1992}}</ref>

In 1997, the council bought outpurchased the pub and closed it down and, then demolished some of the 1,050 homes on the estate, 20% of which were, at the time, unoccupied. The council entered into a public/private partnership with Southdale Homes. and created new housing which benefittedbenefited from the locationslocation's proximity to the Fixby area, where house prices were morerelatively buoyant.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Conn|first1=David|title=Public and private make perfect partners|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/3347245/Public-and-private-make-perfect-partners.html|accessdate=25 July 2017|work=The Telegraph|date=21 January 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Final stage of Brackenhall estate regeneration go-ahead|url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/final-stage-brackenhall-estate-regeneration-5000775|accessdate=25 July 2017|work=Huddersfield Examiner|date=20 April 2010}}</ref>

* [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=691 Brackenhall Green]