Kirkheaton

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Kirkheaton
St John's Church, Kirkheaton - geograph.org.uk - 97593.jpg
St John's Church
Kirkheaton is located in West Yorkshire
Kirkheaton
Kirkheaton
Location within West Yorkshire
Metropolitan borough
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CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Dialling code01484
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53°39′19″N 1°43′44″W / 53.6552°N 1.7290°W / 53.6552; -1.7290Coordinates: 53°39′19″N 1°43′44″W / 53.6552°N 1.7290°W / 53.6552; -1.7290

Kirkheaton is a village 3 miles (5 km) north east of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England with a population of 4,209 together with Upper Heaton.[citation needed] Historically, it is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The name Heaton comes from Old English "Heah" meaning high and "tun" meaning settlement along with Old Norse"Kirk" meaning church.

Parish Church[]

The Parish church in Kirkheaton,[1] dedicated to St John the Baptist, is one of the earliest churches in the area, there was a stone church on the site before the Norman Conquest. In the churchyard is a fine memorial to a disaster which shook the nation in 1818, a horrific fire in a local cotton mill, Colne Bridge Mill, in which 14 workers, all girls and many of them very young, were trapped and lost their lives.[2][3]

Education[]

Kirkheaton has a primary school, Kirkheaton Primary School, which is situated on New Road.[4]

Notable people[]

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References[]

  1. ^ "St.Johns Kirkheaton". www.kirkheatonchurch.org.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  2. ^ The names and ages of the victims, and a description of the disaster, are carved into the monument itself.
  3. ^ "Tragedy at Atkinson's Mill". 2 March 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  4. ^ Kirkheaton Primary School. Department for Education: EduBase. Retrieved 4 February 2018
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