Overton
Overton is a village between Wakefield and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. The village is situated approximately 5.5 miles south-west of Wakefield, 4 miles south of Ossett, 1 mile west of Netherton and 4 miles south-west of Horbury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Overton, Wakefield” and “Overton, West Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Luke and National Coal Mining Museum for England.
National Coal Mining Museum for England
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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.
Thornhill Community Academy
School
Thornhill Community Academy is an 11–16 coeducational secondary school with academy status situated just outside Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, on the western side of Kirklees and near the M1 and the M62 motorways.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Middlestown and Flockton Green.
Middlestown
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Middlestown is a small village in the Wakefield District in West Yorkshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Sitlington and located halfway between the city of Wakefield and the town of Huddersfield, and is 3 miles south east of Dewsbury.
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.
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.
Overton
- Category: locality
- Location: Sitlington, Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.64628° or 53° 38′ 47″ northLongitude
-1.61064° or 1° 36′ 38″ westElevation
443 feet (135 metres)Open location code
9C5WJ9WQ+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 417760801OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Overton” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Overton, Wakefield”
- Irish: “Overton”
- Polish: “Overton (Wakefield)”
- Polish: “Overton”
- Urdu: “اوورٹن، ویکفیلڈ”
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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 “Overton”. Photo: J3Mrs, CC BY-SA 3.0.