Notable People
Architect, John Carr was born in Horbury in 1723. Carr bought Sunroyd House in 1789 and renamed it "Carr Lodge". Horbury Bridge is known as the home of Onward, Christian Soldiers, the hymn written by Sabine Baring-Gould. Stan Barstow, author of Joby and A Kind of Loving, was born in Horbury. In his autobiography, he said that Ossett and Horbury were the "border country" where the north-west of the coalfield merges with the south-east of the wool towns. William Baines born in 1899 was a pianist and prolific composer who died in 1922, he composed two hundred works, the majority for solo piano.
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