Lofthouse Gate

Lofthouse Gate is a village in Normanton, Wakefield, England. Lofthouse Gate is situated nearby to the suburb Outwood, as well as near the neighborhood Langley.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Outwood railway station and Stanley Library.

Outwood railway station

Railway station

Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.

Outwood railway station is situated in the Outwood district of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. Outwood is the first stop on the Wakefield Line 7.5 miles after Leeds for trains going towards Wakefield Westgate, Doncaster and Sheffield.

Stanley Library

Library

Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Christ Church

Church

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Outwood and Lofthouse.

Outwood is a district to the north of Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England. The district is centred on the A61 Leeds Road south of Lofthouse. It grew up as a pit village and was only a small settlement until the 1970s, when construction of new houses caused it to grow and merge with neighbouring settlements such as Wrenthorpe and Stanley.

Lofthouse

Village

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lofthouse is a village between the cities of Wakefield and Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Ardsley and Robin Hood ward of the City of Leeds Council.

Stanley

Town

Photo: Steve Partridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stanley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is about 2.5 miles north-east of Wakefield city centre. Stanley was an Urban District in the West Riding of Yorkshire before 1974, being made up the four electoral wards of Lake Lock, Outwood, Stanley and Wrenthorpe.

Lofthouse Gate

Type: Village
Description: suburb in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Categories: suburb and locality
Location: Normanton, Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.71735° or 53° 43′ 2″ north

Longitude

-1.49617° or 1° 29′ 46″ west

Elevation

223 feet (68 metres)

Open location code

9C5WPG83+WG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 26282411

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

2643774

Wikidata ID

Q131573736

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