Percy Shaw
Percy Shaw is a memorial in Calderdale, England. Percy Shaw is situated nearby to Akroyd Park, as well as near the school Akroydon Primary Academy.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bankfield Museum and Shroggs Park.
Bankfield Museum
Museum
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Bankfield Museum is a grade II listed historic house museum, incorporating a regimental museum and textiles gallery in Boothtown, Halifax, England. It is notable for its past ownership and development by Colonel Edward Akroyd, MP, and its grand interior. Bankfield Museum is situated 2,400 feet southeast of Percy Shaw.
Shroggs Park
Park
Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shroggs Park is a park in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It covers 9.7 hectares and is Grade II listed with Historic England. Shroggs Park is situated 3,000 feet southwest of Percy Shaw.
All Souls’ Church, Halifax
Church
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All Souls Church, Halifax, is a redundant Anglican church in Haley Hill, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. All Souls’ Church, Halifax is situated 3,100 feet south of Percy Shaw.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akroydon and Boothtown.
Akroydon
Hamlet
Photo: Declanbowley, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Akroydon model housing scheme is a Victorian-era model village at Boothtown, Halifax, in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.
Boothtown
Suburb
Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boothtown is a suburb of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, which falls within Town Ward, one of the 17 wards of Calderdale. Its history was dominated by the mills of the textile industry.
Ovenden
Suburb
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ovenden is a village in West Yorkshire, England, next to Boothtown and Illingworth about a mile from Halifax town centre. It is also a Calderdale Ward whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,351.
Percy Shaw
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Boothtown Mansion Was the home of Percy Shaw, O.B.E. 1890-1976 Inventor of the reflecting roadstud ‘The Catseye’”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.73836° or 53° 44′ 18″ northLongitude
-1.86817° or 1° 52′ 5″ westOperator
Calderdale CouncilOpen location code
9C5WP4QJ+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 13755001067OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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