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West Bretton

West Bretton is a village and civil parish in , , England. It lies close to junction 38 of the M1 motorway at Haigh. It has a population of 546, reducing to 459 at the 2011 Census.
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  • Type: Village with 459 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Bretton”, “West Bretton, Wakefield”, and “West Bretton, West Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Bartholomew’s Chapel, West Bretton and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Church
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St Bartholomew's Chapel is a former estate church in the grounds of , in West Bretton near in , England. The redundant Grade II* listed chapel has been restored as gallery space for the .

Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, , in West Yorkshire, England.

Hotel
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is a country house in West Bretton near , , England. It housed College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds from 2001 to 2007.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Netherton and Painthorpe.

Village
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is a village in the metropolitan borough of , England. It lies about 4 miles south-west of , 3 miles south of and 1 mile south of . is situated 2 miles northwest of West Bretton.

Village
is a residential area in the Wakefield district, in the English county of . It is situated southwest of . is situated 2 miles northeast of West Bretton.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in , England. It lies to the west of in between there and , and is located at approximately, at an elevation of around 200 metres above sea level. is situated 2½ miles southwest of West Bretton.

West Bretton

Latitude
53.61994° or 53° 37′ 12″ north
Longitude
-1.56484° or 1° 33′ 53″ west
Population
459
Elevation
469 feet (143 metres)
Open location code
9C5WJC9P+X3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29797239
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2634494
Wiki­data ID
Q2668038
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Urdu—“West Bretton” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “ওয়েস্ট ব্রেটন”
  • Cebuano: “West Bretton”
  • Chinese: “West Bretton”
  • Chinese: “西布雷頓”
  • Chinese: “西布雷顿”
  • Dutch: “West Bretton”
  • French: “West Bretton”
  • German: “West Bretton”
  • Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમ બ્રેટન”
  • Irish: “West Bretton”
  • Japanese: “西ブレットン”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಬ್ರೆಟನ್”
  • Korean: “웨스트 브레턴”
  • Ladin: “West Bretton”
  • Lithuanian: “Vest Bretonas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “West Bretton”
  • Polish: “West Bretton”
  • Portuguese: “West Bretton”
  • Russian: “Вест-Бреттон”
  • Spanish: “West Bretton”
  • Swedish: “West Bretton”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு பிரிட்டன்”
  • Telugu: “పశ్చిమ బ్రెట్టన్”
  • Turkish: “West Bretton”
  • Urdu: “ویسٹ بریتٹن”
  • “West Bretton”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “West Bretton”. Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.