When Kirkheaton was known as Hepton (Heptone)
Doomsday book 1086 The traditional view is that Kirkheaton began life as ‘he ton’ or ‘heaton’, which comes from two Olde English words ‘heah’, meaning high and ‘tun’, a settlement or farm, to give the translation of the ‘dweller at the high...Page 1 of 1