Web based
- Huddersfield Exposed website-search for Kirkheaton. Old Ordnance survey maps also available to download
- Kirklees Image website-search for Kirkheaton, Dalton etc
- Yetton Together website-photos and information
- Kirkheaton info website -Burial records for local churches and chapels as well as kirkheaton war records
- Discovery National Archives website / West Yorkshire Archive service
- Ancestry Website (free if you are a Kirklees library member with a pin number)
- British newspaper archive (Subscription website)
- Kirkburton parish council Archive http://www.denbydalekirkburton archives.co.ukhttps://sites.google.com/view/kirkleescuriosities then search for Kirkheaton
- Kirkheaton St. John’s Church History https://www.kirkheatonchurch.org.uk
Books
- Yetton News magazine
- Hefford Ainley-Kirkheaton-Three downloadable journals on kirkheaton.info website
- Tolson, Legh (1929); History of the church of St John. Available to view on Huddersfield Exposed website
- Redmonds ,G (2005) ; Places of Kirkheaton and District; Shore , David.
- Minter, Gordon and Enid; Discovering Old Lepton and Kirkheaton; Barden Print (Also available on Huddersfield Exposed website)
- Greensides,E (1988); A History of Kirkheaton Parish Church (1988 Centenary edition)
- Fisher, J N (1997); The, Huddersfield and Kirkburton Branch; The Oakwood Press
- 8 Brooke, J M (1983); The Story of Three Schools-Education in Kirkheaton from 1600
- Neal, Patrick J A (2006): George Herbert Hirst, Mirfield Cricket Club 1891
- Stephenson, D A; 100 years at Bankfield -A History of Kirkheaton CC 1883-1983
- Brier, Margaret; Whitley Willows (Paradise Lost); Enterprise print
- Thompson, A,A; Hirst and Rhodes; The Pavilion Library
- Heaton, R A (2014); De Heton-family links with Kirkheaton and Mirfield; Fryup Press
- Robertshaw , P E (2012); No smoking Gun-The story of the Kirkheaton Police Killings-1951; Bright Pen
- Hurtley , WH; Baxter, K; Connolly, JM; Dalton Grange Club 1916-1992; Private publication.
- Short, Stephanie; Grange Moor Church-A Village and its Church
- Ellam; J.R.; Huddersfield’s Nineteenth Century Yorkshire XI; Athena Press 2004
- Redmonds G; Photographs of Old Lepton
Other
Kirkheaton History Group –meet Thursday 6 to 7-00pm in Kirkheaton- library
Kirkheaton History group-facebook page
Bimonthly talks in Kirkheaton community centre
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