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Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking up towards Batley Road, Kirkhamgate. Gawthorpe Lane is an old highway, now classified as a bridleway. It is a useful cycling route.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>More of a culvert than a bridge - Gawthorpe Lane is a bridleway and also gives vehicular access to fields.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking SE towards Wakefield.
©Steve Partridge
Dist:0.3km<br/>War memorial, Kirkhamgate - On the front: "To the glory of God and to the memory of the men who gave their lives for the cause of freedom in the Great War 1914 -1918 / 1914 T W Gill / 1915 J W Brook, J Ward, C Brook, J Auty, H Vickers / 1916 J Jowett, F Hartley, B Ward, C Hewitt, H Ramsden, S L Miller, F W Corby, C Mercer / 1917 C Hopewell, C Calvert, C Porthouse / 1918 C S Holroyd, L Jowett, W Milner, T Yates, C T Taylor, H Pickersgill, H S Cething, J H Ainsworth, C A Hartley, P Dickens, A Firth / Their names shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out." On the side: "1939 - 1945 / J Broadhead, W Earnshaw, H Jowett, A Pierce, R Pierce, L Pickersgill, M D Pickersgill" I apologise if I have made any errors in the transcription.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is the centre of the village of Kirkhamgate, which was part of the township of Alverthorpe. Here is the war memorial, a few shops and the bus stop.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>27 Kirkhamgate men died in the First World War.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>A small open-plan council estate of semi-detached bungalows, presumably intended for pensioners. Listed in the Wakefield and District Housing website as due to be improved in 2012.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Named on the six-inch map of 1854, although obviously rebuilt since then, probably in the first half of the 20C when the half-timbered style was in fashion. The railings and crash barrier are for the bridge over the M1.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Located by the MI on Batley Road, Kirkhamgate.
©Mike Kirby
Dist:0.4km<br/>The white bridge in the distance crosses the M1. The village lost its criocket ground when the motorway was built in the 1960s.
©Christine Johnstone

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