Thorp Fountain
Thorp Fountain is a monument in Calderdale, England. Thorp Fountain is situated nearby to St. Jude’s Church, as well as near the sports venue Queens Sports Club.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Crossley Heath School and The Shay.
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 1,600 feet west of Thorp Fountain.
The Shay
Pitch
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The Shay is a multi-purpose sports stadium in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It is home to the FC Halifax Town association football club and the Halifax Panthers rugby league team. The Shay is situated 2,900 feet northeast of Thorp Fountain.
Calderdale College
College
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Calderdale College is a further and higher education college based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The college is the largest provider of further education courses and work-based learning and—through University Centre Calderdale as part of a cooperation with Leeds Beckett University that began in 2006—the sole provider of higher education awards in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale. Calderdale College is situated 3,000 feet north of Thorp Fountain.
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.
Halifax
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Halifax is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of around 90,000 in 2021. It is well known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, which dealt through the Halifax Piece Hall.
Thorp Fountain
- Type: Monument
- Inscription: “Water is Best”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.71231° or 53° 42′ 44″ northLongitude
-1.87083° or 1° 52′ 15″ westOpen location code
9C5WP46H+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 8407641390OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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Highlights include St. Jude’s Church and Queens Sports Club.
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