Glasshoughton
Glasshoughton is a neighbourhood of Castleford in the Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. The area is next to Junction 32 of the M62 motorway and the Glasshoughton railway station, and borders Pontefract.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Castleford, in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Glass Houghton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glasshoughton railway station and Cineworld Cinema Castleford.
Glasshoughton railway station
Railway station
Glasshoughton railway station serves Glasshoughton, Castleford in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, operated by Northern, 12 miles south-east of Leeds.
Cineworld Cinema Castleford
Movie theater
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Cineworld Cinema Castleford is a movie theater.
Castleford Civic Centre
Town hall
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Castleford Civic Centre is a municipal building in Ferrybridge Road in Castleford, a town in West Yorkshire in England. The building, which was previously the offices and meeting place of the Municipal Borough of Castleford, is now used as a local events venue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castleford and Airedale.
Castleford
Town
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Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the town centre the River Calder joins the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation.
Airedale
Suburb
Airedale is a suburb in the town of Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. It consists mainly of Local Authority Housing. It borders with Ferry Fryston. The ward of the City of Wakefield called Airedale and Ferry Fryston had a population of 14,811 at the 2011 Census.
New Fryston
Village
Photo: David Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
New Fryston is a small former coal mining village in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, located in a river bend on the south bank of the River Aire. The colliery opened in the 1870s in the grounds of the now-demolished Fryston Hall and was named Fryston, and the village was built in the 1880s to house some of the miners. New Fryston is situated 2 miles northeast of Glasshoughton.
Glasshoughton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.71578° or 53° 42′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.33772° or 1° 20′ 16″ westElevation
138 feet (42 metres)Open location code
9C5WPM86+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 346865581OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Japanese to Swedish—“Glasshoughton” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “グラスホートン”
- Swedish: “Glass Houghton”
- “Glass Houghton”
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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 “Glasshoughton”. Photo: David Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.