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Welcome to Kirkheaton. This is a guide to the Kirkheaton area.

This picture was taken next to a trig point called 'Roundabout'. An odd name as it's nowhere near a roundabout! Great views all round though, including this one over Huddersfield.
©Ian Rutson
©Nigel Homer
©Nigel Homer
Top surface showing the plug.
©Adam Brookes
The view from the Roundabout trigpoint.
©Adam Brookes
The junction after which the pub was named is the cross-roads in the centre of the village.
©Humphrey Bolton
The winding main road up to the village. There is a stone-built single-storey shop near to the bend (however the road name probably refers to a workshop).
©Humphrey Bolton
An estate road between Moorside Road and New Road.
©Humphrey Bolton
This is one of three straight roads that enter the village from the north. They might have been set out by an enclosure award. This one was called Workhouse Lane on the 1850 map, and the workhouse was half-way up. It was operated by the Huddersfield Union. Most of the houses have rendered walls, probably originally council houses, but the pair on the left are stone-faced.
©Humphrey Bolton
This consists of two blocks of four houses at right angles to the road, with I think only footpath access. They were built in the days when council house tenants did not have cars. There is a similar 'Second Avenue' but, it seems, no 'First Avenue'.
©Humphrey Bolton
A block of three shops at the junction with Town Road.
©Humphrey Bolton
The stone is dated 1738, and has distances in accordance with the then recent legislation. It is at an important crossroads on the Halifax to Barnsley Road, later to be turnpiked. The inscriptions (from a drawing in W B Crump's Huddersfield Highways down the ages)are: straight on (Highgate Lane) Barnsley 12 miles; back (Moot Top Road) Halifax 6 miles; left (Hollin Hall Lane) Dewsberry (?) miles; right (Heaton Moor Lane) Huddersfield (?) miles. The stone had been right on the corner, leaning precariously, but has been recently repositioned.
©Humphrey Bolton
©Betty Longbottom
©Betty Longbottom
©Betty Longbottom

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