Kirkburton
Kirkburton is a village, civil parish and ward in Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.
Kirkburton is a village, civil parish and ward in Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Huddersfield. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the township comprised the villages of Kirkburton and Highburton and several hamlets, including Thunder Bridge, Thorncliffe, Storthes Hall and Linfit. According to the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 26,439, while the village had a population of 4,299.
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Worth seeing in and around Kirkburton
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland
Grade II listed church in the village of Thurstonland, in the parish of Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK
3.7 km · Wikipedia - 02Woodsome Hall
Grade I listed building in Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK
2.5 km · Wikipedia - 03Town Hall
Grade II listed building in Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK
800 m · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Kirkburton
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 29 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 82 km
- Stations
- Stocksmoor railway station, 2.2 km · Shepley railway station, 2.3 km · Shelley railway station, 2.8 km · Skelmanthorpe railway station, 3.6 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Kirkburton38 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £5–7
- Liverpool → Kirkburton87 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Kirkburton82 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kirkburton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kirkburton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.
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Next door to Kirkburton
Kirkburton is 21 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Shepleyvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3 km
- Fulstonehamlet in Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England3.8 km
- Farnley Tyasvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.2 km
- Leptonsuburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom2.6 km
- Thurstonlandvillage in the parish of Kirkburton, West Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Stocksmoorvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.4 km