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Kirkheaton

Village in West Yorkshire, England

Village in West Yorkshire, England

FieldValue
static_image_nameSt John's Church, Kirkheaton - geograph.org.uk - 97593.jpg
static_image_captionSt John's Church
official_nameKirkheaton
coordinates
label_positionbottom
civil_parishKirkburton
metropolitan_boroughKirklees
metropolitan_countyWest Yorkshire
regionYorkshire and the Humber
countryEngland
dial_code01484
constituency_westminsterSpen Valley
population3496
population_ref(2021 census)
area_total_km20.9657

Kirkheaton () is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England, Historically, it is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is 3 mi north-east of Huddersfield, in the Dalton ward of Kirklees Council. In 2021 it had a population of 3,496.

History

The name Heaton comes from Old English "heah" meaning high and "tun" meaning settlement and the Old Norse "kirk" meaning church. In 1894 Kirkheaton became an urban district, on 1 April 1938 the district and parish were abolished and merged with Kirkburton Urban District. In 1931 the parish had a population of 2610.

Religion

The parish church in Kirkheaton, 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 memorial to a disaster that 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 died.

See the 'External Links' below for a survey of burials and transcripts of the parish registers.

Education

Kirkheaton Primary School is on New Road.

Notable people

  • England cricketers George Herbert Hirst, Allen Hill and Wilfred Rhodes were born in the village and played cricket for Kirkheaton Cricket Club. The cricketers, William Bates, John Thewlis Senior, and Lewis Wrathmell, were all born in the village and played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
  • Richard Reed, Co-founder of Innocent Drinks.

References

References

  1. "Kirkheaton". City Population De.
  2. "Kirkheaton Key to English Place-names". The University of Nottingham.
  3. "Relationships and changes Kirkheaton UD through time". [[A Vision of Britain through Time]].
  4. "Relationships and changes Kirkheaton AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
  5. "Population statistics Kirkheaton AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
  6. "St.Johns Kirkheaton".
  7. The names and ages of the victims, and a description of the disaster, are carved into the monument.
  8. (2 March 2018). "Tragedy at Atkinson's Mill".
  9. {{EduBase. 107683. Kirkheaton Primary School. [[Department for Education]]: EduBase. Retrieved 4 February 2018
  10. Woodhouse, A.. (1989). "The history of Yorkshire County Cricket Club". Christopher Helm.
  11. "A Bit About Us".
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