Kirklees Priory
Kirklees Priory was a Cistercian nunnery whose site is in the present-day Kirklees Park, Clifton near Brighouse, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It was originally in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Dewsbury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Historical site
- Description: monastery in West Yorkshire, UK
- Also known as: “Kirklees Priory, medieval nunnery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kirklees Priory Gatehouse and Kirklees Hall.
Kirklees Priory Gatehouse
Building
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirklees Priory Gatehouse is a building.
Kirklees Hall
Manor estate
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Kirklees Hall is a 16th-century Grade I listed Jacobean hall, close to the English village of Clifton in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. The first evidence of a hall constructed at Kirklees was that of Sir Thomas Gargrave, who conveyed the property to the Pilkington family. Kirklees Hall is situated 1,300 feet west of Kirklees Priory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hartshead and Beggarington.
Hartshead
Village
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Hartshead is a village in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England, 3.7 miles west of Dewsbury and near to Hartshead Moor. The village has pre-Norman Conquest origins; the Walton Cross is believed to be dated from the 11th century.
Beggarington
Hamlet
Beggarington, also known as Beggerington and Begerington is a hamlet consisting of a few houses about 0.4 miles north of Hartshead in Kirklees, West Yorkshire.
Clifton
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clifton is a village on the eastern outskirts of Brighouse in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England.
Kirklees Priory
- Categories: priory, archaeological site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Portuguese—“Kirklees Priory” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Kirklees Priory”
- Portuguese: “Convento de Kirklees”
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