Wainhouse Tower
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.Photo: Michael Steele, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tower
- Description: folly tower in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Postal code: HX2 7EN
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include King Cross Library and The Crossley Heath School.
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.
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 3,100 feet northeast 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
- Categories: folly tower, folly, and building
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.71236° or 53° 42′ 45″ northLongitude
-1.88271° or 1° 52′ 58″ westHeight
276 feet (84 metres)Open location code
9C5WP468+WWOpenStreetMap ID
way 186254740OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerWikidata ID
Q7960169
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In Other Languages
“Wainhouse Tower” goes by many names.
- Italian: “Wainhouse Tower”
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