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Hanging Heaton is an historic village mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name ‘Etun’ The prefix ‘Hanging’ refers to a steep hillside hanging above lower ground. ‘Heaton’ means ‘High Farm’, meaning the village was once a hillside farmstead. When you visit Hanging Heaton, Walkfo brings Hanging Heaton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

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Hanging Heaton photo With 46 audio plaques & Hanging Heaton places for you to explore in the Hanging Heaton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Hanging Heaton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

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Visit Hanging Heaton PlacesYou can visit Hanging Heaton places with Walkfo Hanging Heaton to hear history at Hanging Heaton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hanging Heaton has 46 places to visit in our interactive Hanging Heaton map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Hanging Heaton, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Hanging Heaton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hanging Heaton & the surrounding areas.

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Hanging Heaton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Hanging Heaton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Hanging Heaton’s information audio spots:

Hanging Heaton photo Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe
Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe was a doubling mill in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. It doubled yarns of count’s 4’s to 40’s. It was taken over by Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964.
Hanging Heaton photo HWD Hospital Radio
HWD Hospital Radio broadcasts to patients and staff of Mid Yorkshire Trust hospitals. The station is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, number 227515.
Hanging Heaton photo Batley Town Hall
Batley Town Hall is a municipal facility in the Market Place in Batley, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
Hanging Heaton photo Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. It lies on the River Calder and an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town.
Hanging Heaton photo Batley
Batley is a market and mill town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire. In 2011 the population of Batley including Hanging Heaton, Staincliffe, Carlinghow and Birstall Smithies, Copley Hill and Howden Clough was 48,730.
Hanging Heaton photo Thornhill power station
The first generating station on the site was owned and operated by the Yorkshire Electric Power Company. Following nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948 Thornhill power station was operated by a succession of state owned bodies. The coal-fired steam station was decommissioned in 1982, and was subsequently demolished in 1998.
Hanging Heaton photo Ossett Town A.F.C.
Ossett Town Association Football Club was an English football club based in Ossett in West Yorkshire. The club was based in the West Yorkshire town of Ossett.
Hanging Heaton photo Ossett United F.C.
Ossett United Football Club is a football club based in Ossett, West Yorkshire. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League Division One East.
Hanging Heaton photo Ossett Albion A.F.C.
Ossett Albion Association Football Club was an English football club. They played at Queen’s Terrace in Ossett, in West Yorkshire, more commonly known as Dimplewells.
Hanging Heaton photo Dewsbury bus station
The bus station is situated in Dewsbury town centre next to Aldams Road (A638 road) and can be accessed there and from South Street. The station was rebuilt in 1994 with a main passenger concourse and 19 bus stands.

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Hanging Heaton has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Hanging Heaton plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Hanging Heaton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Hanging Heaton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.