Civil parish in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
Sitlington
Sitlington, historically Shitlington, was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Thornhill in the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire comprising the villages and hamlets of Middlestown, Netherton, Overton and Midgley.
The h was dropped from Shitlington and Sitlington was adopted in 1929 with the approval of the county council. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,963.
How locals move
Getting around Sitlington the local way
- Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.
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