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Taken looking NE at SE 232 255 Wilton Park near Batley.

©Steve Partridge

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

Long established local Independent school, with many famous Old Boys, and an association with Joseph Priestley.

©Oxana Maher

A hospital until the early 1990s, now a nursing home for the elderly.

©Oxana Maher

©Betty Longbottom

The Park was opened in 1910.

©Betty Longbottom

©Betty Longbottom

©Betty Longbottom

©Betty Longbottom

©Betty Longbottom

©Betty Longbottom

©Bill Henderson

Dist:1.0km east<br/>A view across the wheatfields towards Scolecroft Farm taken from the Leeds Country Way

©Mick Melvin

Dist:1.0km west<br/>This was a branch line from Dewsbury up the valley to Birstall. In the foreground is the overgrown track bed, and then there is a length that has been landscaped. With luck this could be a cycle route which would extend the existing route on the disused railway past Wilton Park, Batley.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:1.0km south<br/>Healey was a hamlet separate from Batley, and started to grow in the 19C when there were two textile mills. The George Inn is the focal point, at the junction of Healey lane and Deighton Lane. The 19C houses ranged from small back-to-backs to the large houses of mill-managers and professional. At the western end streets were developed up the slope to the north of Healey lane, and a Methodist Chapel was built at the end of one of these (Healey Street).

©Humphrey Bolton

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