Royds Hall was a large farmhouse in the Paddock and
Longwood area of Huddersfield, adjoining Royds Wood. It was rebuilt as a grander mansion (still called Royds Hall, but also known as 'Royds Wood'. It was still referred to on the town plan published in 1890 as Royds Hall), whose philanthropic mill owner served the increasingly industrialised and expanding town. The building was formerly Royds Hall Mansion, built in 1866 by Sir
Joseph Crosland, the Conservative MP for the
Huddersfield constituency from 1893–95. On his death in 1904 he left the property to his nephew Thomas Pearson Crosland, who sold it to Huddersfield Corporation in 1915 for £17,000. During the First World War, the mansion and extensive grounds opened as The Huddersfield War Hospital. The hospital opened in June 1915 and initially had six hundred beds across a large number of wooden huts, by 1917 this number had increased to two thousand beds. Throughout its time as a hospital, Royds Hall saw around twenty two thousand patients pass through its grounds. It is widely reported that the Huddersfield War Hospital proudly boasted the lowest death rate in the country. Only the mansion and one red brick building to the north of the school drive remain in place. Royds Hall Grammar School opened on 20 September 1921, which became a comprehensive school in 1963. Previously a
foundation school administered by
Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council, in 2018 Royds Hall converted to
academy status. The school is now sponsored by the SHARE Multi Academy Trust. ==Notable alumni==