Dewsbury Moor is a district of Dewsbury

Dewsbury

Dewsbury is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds...

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

, England

England

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. It lies to the west of the Dewsbury town centre. The population is around 5,650. Crime rates are higher than the national average.

Dewsbury Moor Amateur Rugby League

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 Football Club is based on Heckmondwike Road and has three playing fields nearby. The rugby club has turned out several notable rugby league professionals including Ryan Sheridan

Ryan Sheridan

Ryan Sheridan is a former rugby league player.Sheridan was an Ireland international and played at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup.Leeds Career :Ryan Sheridan was one of the most influential players in the late 1990s for the Rhinos...

, Matt Diskin

Matt Diskin

Matt Diskin is an English professional rugby league footballer for the Bradford Bulls of Super League. A Great Britain and England international representative hooker, he played ten years with Leeds Rhinos, having won four Super League championships with the club, before moving to the Bulls for the...

 and Dean Lawford

Dean Lawford

Dean Lawford is a rugby league half back for Dewsbury Rams. He has played for Sheffield Eagles, Leeds Rhinos, Bramley Buffaloes, Huddersfield Giants, Halifax, Widnes Vikings, Dewsbury Celtic, and Batley Bulldogs....

. There are two schools, Knowles Hill Infant and Nursery School on Knowles Hill Road, and
Westmoor Junior School on Church Lane.

Shannon Matthews disappeared

Disappearance of Shannon Matthews

Shannon Louise Matthews is a British girl who disappeared on the afternoon of 19 February 2008 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. The search for her became a major missing person police operation which was compared to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. She was found on 14 March 2008 at a...

 from near her home, in Dewsbury Moor, on the afternoon of 19 February 2008. She was found alive on 14 March 2008 in Batley Carr

Batley Carr

Batley Carr, West Yorkshire, England is primarily a council estate in Batley, on the way to Dewsbury, along the A652, Bradford Road. The population is about 3,740. Crime is around the national average....

. Michael Donavan, the man whose house she was found in, was (along with Shannon's mother Karen) later jailed for eight years for abduction and false imprisonment.

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