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©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The Park was opened in 1910.
©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Taken looking NE at SE 232 255 Wilton Park near Batley.
©Steve Partridge
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This impressive Victorian Gothic former mill owner’s house is set in 36 acres of Wilton Park The home of George Sheard from 1875-1902, the house became a museum in 1911 and was named after its first curator, Walter Bagshaw.
©Nigel Homer
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A hospital until the early 1990s, now a nursing home for the elderly.
©Oxana Maher
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Long established local Independent school, with many famous Old Boys, and an association with Joseph Priestley.
©Oxana Maher
Dist:0.6km south<br/>Built 1899.
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.6km south<br/>A very old merger – it had this name on the 1850 OS map!
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km east<br/>Upper Batley's rural past is shown in this photograph of the bottom end of Upper Batley Lane.
©Gary Hughes

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