History Sources

Web based

  1. Huddersfield Exposed website-search for Kirkheaton. Old Ordnance survey maps also available to download
  2. Kirklees Image website-search for Kirkheaton, Dalton etc
  3. Yetton Together website-photos and information
  4. Kirkheaton info website   -Burial records for local churches and chapels as well as kirkheaton war records
  5. Discovery National Archives website / West Yorkshire Archive service
  6. Ancestry Website (free if you are a Kirklees library member with a pin number)
  7. British newspaper archive (Subscription website)
  8. Kirkburton parish council Archive http://www.denbydalekirkburton archives.co.ukhttps://sites.google.com/view/kirkleescuriosities then search for Kirkheaton
  9. Kirkheaton St. John’s Church History https://www.kirkheatonchurch.org.uk

Books

  1. Yetton News magazine
  2. Hefford Ainley-Kirkheaton-Three downloadable journals on kirkheaton.info website
  3. Tolson, Legh (1929); History of the church of St John. Available to view on Huddersfield Exposed website
  4. Redmonds ,G (2005) ; Places of Kirkheaton and District; Shore , David.
  5. Minter, Gordon and Enid; Discovering Old Lepton and Kirkheaton; Barden Print (Also available on Huddersfield Exposed website)
  6. Greensides,E (1988); A History of Kirkheaton Parish Church (1988 Centenary edition)
  7. Fisher, J N (1997); The, Huddersfield and Kirkburton Branch; The Oakwood Press
  8. 8 Brooke, J M (1983); The Story of Three Schools-Education in Kirkheaton from 1600
  9. Neal, Patrick J A (2006): George Herbert Hirst, Mirfield Cricket Club 1891
  10. Stephenson, D A; 100 years at Bankfield -A History of Kirkheaton CC 1883-1983
  11. Brier, Margaret; Whitley Willows (Paradise Lost); Enterprise print
  12. Thompson, A,A; Hirst and Rhodes; The Pavilion Library
  13. Heaton, R A (2014); De Heton-family links with Kirkheaton and Mirfield; Fryup Press
  14. Robertshaw , P E (2012); No smoking Gun-The story of the Kirkheaton Police Killings-1951; Bright Pen
  15. Hurtley , WH; Baxter, K; Connolly, JM; Dalton Grange Club 1916-1992; Private publication.
  16. Short, Stephanie; Grange Moor Church-A Village and its Church
  17. Ellam; J.R.; Huddersfield’s Nineteenth Century Yorkshire XI; Athena Press 2004
  18. 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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