Lepton
Lepton is a village near Huddersfield, in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England. It is 4.25 miles to the east of Huddersfield on the A642 road, 120 metres above the town centre directly north of Lepton Great Wood.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 uk.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Lepton, West Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Michael & St Helen and Burton Cross.
St Michael & St Helen
Church
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael & St Helen is a church.
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. Myers Wood is situated 1½ miles south of Lepton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gawthorpe and Highburton.
Gawthorpe
Hamlet
Gawthorpe, also known as Gawthorp, is a hamlet in the Kirklees district, in the English county of West Yorkshire, about 4 miles east of Huddersfield. The nearest major road is the A642 which passes about 0.3 miles south of the place.
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.
Almondbury
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Almondbury is a village 2 miles south-east of Huddersfield town centre in the Kirklees district, of West Yorkshire, England. The population of Almondbury in 2001 was 7,368 increasing to 18,346 at the 2011 census.
Lepton
- Category: locality
- Location: Kirkburton, Kirklees, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.63113° or 53° 37′ 52″ northLongitude
-1.71346° or 1° 42′ 49″ westElevation
541 feet (165 metres)Open location code
9C5WJ7JP+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1920514393OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Lepton” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Lepton, West Yorkshire”
- Dutch: “Lepton”
- French: “Lepton”
- Polish: “Lepton (Anglia)”
- Polish: “Lepton”
- Swedish: “Lepton, England”
- Swedish: “Lepton”
- Urdu: “لیپٹن، ویسٹ یارکشائر”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lepton Methodist Church and Local Community Playground.
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