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Birstall

Birstall is a market and mill town in the metropolitan borough of , , . It is part of the Birstall and Birkenshaw ward, which had a population of 16,298 at the 2011 census.
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  • Type: Town with 16,300 residents
  • Description: village in West Yorkshire, England
  • Also known as: “Birstall, West Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birstall Library and Statue of Joseph Priestley.

Library
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Memorial
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a memorial.

Church
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carlinghow and Gomersal.

Suburb
is a district of , , . It is west of Batley town centre, and stretches up towards White Lee and Birstall, along Lane and Bradford Road.

Town
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in the district, in , England. It is south of Bradford, south west of Leeds, east of , and north of . It is close to the River Spen and forms part of the Heavy Woollen District.

Suburb
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a district of , which is part of the district, , England. is located between and . The 2001 census counted a population of 3,011.

Birstall

Latitude
53.73198° or 53° 43′ 55″ north
Longitude
-1.66025° or 1° 39′ 37″ west
Population
16,300
Elevation
315 feet (96 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BZL
Open location code
9C5WP8JQ+QV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29814356
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655592
Wiki­data ID
Q865872
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Birstall” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բիրստոլ”
  • Belarusian: “Брысталь”
  • Catalan: “Birstall, West Yorkshire”
  • Cebuano: “Birstall”
  • Chinese: “伯斯托爾”
  • Chinese: “比斯特爾”
  • Czech: “Birstall”
  • Danish: “Birstall”
  • Dutch: “Birstall”
  • French: “Birstall”
  • German: “Birstall (West Yorkshire)”
  • German: “Birstall”
  • Hebrew: “בריסטול”
  • Irish: “Birstall”
  • Italian: “Birstall”
  • Japanese: “バーストール”
  • Korean: “버스톨”
  • Lithuanian: “Birstalas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birstall i West Yorkshire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birstall i West Yorkshire”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Burhsteall, West Þriðing”
  • Persian: “برستال، یورکشایر غربی”
  • Polish: “Birstall (West Yorkshire)”
  • Polish: “Birstall”
  • Portuguese: “Birstall (West Yorkshire)”
  • Portuguese: “Birstall”
  • Romanian: “Birstall”
  • Russian: “Бирстолл”
  • Scots: “Birstall, Wast Yorkshire”
  • Scots: “Birstall”
  • Silesian: “Birstall”
  • Slovenian: “Birstall”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برستال، باتی یورکشایر”
  • Spanish: “Birstall”
  • Swedish: “Birstall (ort)”
  • Swedish: “Birstall, West Yorkshire”
  • Swedish: “Birstall”
  • Welsh: “Birstall”

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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 “Birstall”. Photo: Cwbrown, CC BY-SA 1.0.