Kirkburton
Kirkburton is a village, civil parish and ward in Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 5 miles south-east of Huddersfield. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the township comprised the villages of Kirkburton and Highburton and several hamlets, including Thunder Bridge, Thorncliffe, Storthes Hall and Linfit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,790 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Kirkburton, Kirklees” and “Kirkburton, West Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of All Hallows and Myers Wood.
Myers Wood
Forest
Photo: Lesamourai, Public domain.
Myers Wood is a wooded area in the village of Kirkburton, West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of a heavily forested area to the west of the village, occupying the rise in the valley leading up to Storthes Hall and beyond.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Highburton and Thorncliffe, West Yorkshire.
Highburton
Village
Highburton is part of the township of Kirkburton, a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is five miles southeast of Huddersfield. It occupies much of the high ground that can be found at the top of the steep inclines of Far Dene and Slant Gate and is a mixture of densely congregated housing estates and open pastoral farmland.
Thorncliffe, West Yorkshire
Hamlet
Thorncliffe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in the Kirklees district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
Thunder Bridge
Hamlet
Thunder Bridge or Thunderbridge is a hamlet and bridge in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in the Kirklees district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
Kirkburton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Kirkburton, Kirklees, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.61037° or 53° 36′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.70176° or 1° 42′ 6″ westPopulation
3,790Elevation
423 feet (129 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KBUOpen location code
9C5WJ76X+47OpenStreetMap ID
node 29796284OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Kirkburton” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “কিরকবার্টন”
- Cebuano: “Kirkburton”
- Chinese: “Kirkburton”
- Chinese: “却克布尔顿”
- Chinese: “卻克布爾頓”
- Dutch: “Kirkburton”
- French: “Kirkburton”
- German: “Kirkburton”
- Gujarati: “કિર્કબર્ટન”
- Irish: “Kirkburton”
- Japanese: “カークバートン”
- Kannada: “ಕಿರ್ಕ್ಬರ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “커크버턴”
- Ladin: “Kirkburton”
- Lithuanian: “Kirkburtonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kirkburton”
- Persian: “کرکبرتون”
- Polish: “Kirkburton”
- Portuguese: “Kirkburton”
- Russian: “Киркбартон”
- Spanish: “Kirkburton”
- Swedish: “Kirkburton”
- Tamil: “கிரஃபுரடொன்”
- Telugu: “కిర్క్బర్టన్”
- Turkish: “Kirkburton”
- Urdu: “کیرکبورٹن”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kirkburton Library and Kirkburton Post Office.
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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 “Kirkburton”. Photo: steve taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.