Visit Kirkburton Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Kirkburton

  

Kirkburton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Kirkburton

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Kirkburton history

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The area was populated in the Iron Age when a settlement was believed to have been built on the site of the church. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Bertone in Wachefeld. After the Norman Conquest the village grew from the waste recorded in 1086. Kirkburton was named after the church was built in 1190. The Huddersfield-Kirkburton Branch Line opened in 1867.

You can visit Kirkburton places with Walkfo Kirkburton to hear history at Kirkburton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Kirkburton has 24 places to visit in our interactive Kirkburton 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 Kirkburton, 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 Kirkburton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Kirkburton & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 24 audio facts unique to Kirkburton places in an interactive Kirkburton map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Kirkburton Places Map
24 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Kirkburton historic spots	Kirkburton tourist destinations	Kirkburton plaques	Kirkburton geographic features
Walkfo Kirkburton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Kirkburton

  

Best Kirkburton places to visit

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