Hudderfield, England is a market town and one of the largest cities is West Yorkshire, England. The rivers Holme, Colne, and Calder flow through the town. The rivers around the town provided soft water required for textile treatment in large weaving sheds, this made it a prominent mill town with an economic boom in the early part of the Victorian era Industrial Revolution.

It is mentioned once is excerpts from Rhy's Voyage in the Dark, as a one of mention English cities the narrator passes through over a period of travel. "But instead I started counting all the towns I had been to, the first winter I was on tour -- Wigan, Blackburn, Bury, Oldham, Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Southport. ... I counted up to fifteen and then slid off into thinking of all the bedrooms I had slept in and how exactly alike they were, bedrooms on tour." (Part III, Chapter 2)