Midgley
Midgley is a hamlet in Sitlington, Wakefield, England. Midgley is situated nearby to the village Netherton, as well as near the locality Burn Bank.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Midgley, Wakefield”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yorkshire Sculpture Park and St Bartholomew’s Chapel, West Bretton.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England.
St Bartholomew’s Chapel, West Bretton
Church
Photo: J3Mrs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Bartholomew's Chapel is a former estate church in the grounds of Bretton Hall, in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The redundant Grade II* listed chapel has been restored as gallery space for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
National Coal Mining Museum for England
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
National Coal Mining Museum for England is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum and was granted national status in 1995. National Coal Mining Museum for England is situated 1½ miles northwest of Midgley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Netherton and West Bretton.
Netherton
Village
Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Netherton is a village in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It lies about 4 miles south-west of Wakefield, 3 miles south of Ossett and 1 mile south of Horbury.
West Bretton
Village
Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Bretton is a village and civil parish in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It lies close to junction 38 of the M1 motorway at Haigh. It has a population of 546, reducing to 459 at the 2011 Census.
Flockton Green
Hamlet
Flockton is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is halfway between Huddersfield and Wakefield. In 2020, the population of Flockton and Flockton Green was estimated to be 2,107.
Midgley
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Sitlington, Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.62834° or 53° 37′ 42″ northLongitude
-1.59097° or 1° 35′ 28″ westElevation
479 feet (146 metres)Open location code
9C5WJCH5+8JOpenStreetMap ID
node 29797190OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Midgley” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Midgley”
- Irish: “Midgley”
- Polish: “Midgley”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Midgley Lodge Motel & Golf Course and Stocksmoor Common Nature Reserve.
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