Wainhouse Tower
Wainhouse Tower is a monument in Calderdale, England. Wainhouse Tower is situated nearby to King Cross Library, as well as near The Crossley Heath School.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wainhouse Tower and King Cross Library.
Wainhouse Tower
Tower
Photo: Michael Steele, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wainhouse Tower, sometimes called the "Tower of Spite", is a folly in the parish of King Cross, on the south-west side of Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, in England.
King Cross Library
Library
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
King Cross Library is situated 880 feet north of Wainhouse Tower.
The Crossley Heath School
School
The Crossley Heath School is an 11–18 co-educational, grammar school and sixth form with academy status in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1985 following the amalgamation of Heath Grammar School and Crossley and Porter School. The Crossley Heath School is situated 1,100 feet east of Wainhouse Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include King Cross and Skircoat Green.
King Cross
Suburb
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
King Cross, originally the site of an ancient stone cross, is an ecclesiastical parish created in 1845 in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.
Skircoat Green
Village
Skircoat Green is an area to the south of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Skircoat is a ward of the Borough of Calderdale whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,712.
Copley
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Copley is a village in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Halifax and east of Sowerby Bridge. It is situated by the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation canal.
Wainhouse Tower
- Type: Monument
- Category: historic site
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.71237° or 53° 42′ 45″ northLongitude
-1.8827° or 1° 52′ 58″ westOpen location code
9C5WP468+WWOpenStreetMap ID
node 447950211OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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