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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Highburton

  

Highburton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Highburton

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Highburton history

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Highburton was listed as “Bertone” in the Domesday Book. It was a hamlet until the middle of the 20th century, when housing developments increased the size of the village substantially.

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Highburton (Burton) was a market town in the 12th century. Court Rolls for the Manor of Wakefield for 1352 indicate the rights to impose tolls on Burton market were being let. The Smiths Arms is the only public house in the village and occupies one of its oldest buildings.

You can visit Highburton places with Walkfo Highburton to hear history at Highburton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Highburton has 28 places to visit in our interactive Highburton 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 Highburton, 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 Highburton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Highburton & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 28 audio facts unique to Highburton places in an interactive Highburton map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Highburton Places Map
28 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Highburton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Highburton

  

Best Highburton places to visit

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

Storthes Hall Hospital Founded in 1904, it expanded to over 3,000 patients during the Second World War. After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1992.

Shelley Community F.C. Shelley Community Football Club is based in Shelley, West Yorkshire. They were most recently members of the North West Counties League Division One North. The club is affiliated to the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Football Association.

Woodsome Hall Woodsome Hall is a 16th-century country house in the parish of Almondbury, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Built in the Elizabethan era as a hall house, it evolved in stages in the possession of several generations of the local Kaye family. The main hall range is built in two storeys with gabled forward projecting wings and a two storey gabled porch.

Shepley Shepley is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, and in the Diocese of Wakefield. It lies 8 miles (13 km) south south east of Huddersfield and 6 miles (9.7 km) north west of Penistone.

Kirkburton Kirkburton is a village, civil parish and local government ward in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. It is 5 miles (8 km) south east of Huddersfield, in the Metropolitan borough of Kirklees. The civil parish had a population of 26,439 in 2011, while the village itself had 4,299.

Lepton, West Yorkshire Lepton is 4.25 miles (7 km) to the east of, and 120 metres (390 ft) above, the town centre directly north of Lepton Great Wood. In 1931 the parish had a population of 3323.

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