Scapegoat Hill is a small village 5 miles west of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is near to the villages of Slaithwaite and Golcar. The village together with nearby Bolster Moor has a population of 1,246.
This Pennine village is 328 metres above sea level at its highest point . It is also nearby the Moorside Edge Radio transmitter.
The first recorded mention is from 1638 in the records of Huddersfield Parish Church on the death of a child of a William Aneley. At that date, the place was called 'Slipcoat' Hill. The first record of the name 'Scapegoat Hill' occurs in an Enclosure notice placed in the Leeds Mercury in 1820. Although the first Ordnance Survey map uses the old name, 'Scapegoat Hill' was in regular use after 1820.
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