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Storthes Hall Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Storthes Hall

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Storthes Hall history

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The Mansion

Storthes Hall Mansion was built as a private house for the mill owning Horsefall family in about 1788. It was renamed The Mansion Hospital when it became an independently managed facility for people with learning disabilities. After the Mansion Hospital closed in 1991, the building was converted back for private residential use.

Storthes Hall Hospital

An area to the west of The Mansion, closer to Farnley Tyas, was developed as Storthes Hall Hospital in the early 20th century. After the hospital closed in 1992, part of the site was used as a training facility for Huddersfield Town A.F. before their move to their new Canalside facility in 2011.

Storthes Hall Park Student Village

Storthes Hall Park Student Village was developed as a student campus for the University of Huddersfield in the mid 1990s. The village accommodates the largest single concentration of students from the University with over 1,300 students staying every year.

You can visit Storthes Hall places with Walkfo Storthes Hall to hear history at Storthes Hall’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Storthes Hall has 32 places to visit in our interactive Storthes Hall 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 Storthes Hall, 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 Storthes Hall places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Storthes Hall & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Storthes Hall Places Map
32 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Storthes Hall places to visit

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