Country: | England |
Static Image Name: | The Pear Tree Inn Battyeford - geograph.org.uk - 737857.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | The Pear Tree Inn, Battyeford |
Coordinates: | 53.681°N -1.712°W |
Official Name: | Battyeford |
Civil Parish: | Mirfield |
Metropolitan Borough: | Kirklees |
Metropolitan County: | West Yorkshire |
Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Constituency Westminster: | Dewsbury |
Post Town: | MIRFIELD |
Postcode District: | WF14 |
Postcode Area: | WF |
Os Grid Reference: | SE191205 |
Battyeford is a village in West Yorkshire, England west of the town of Mirfield.
From 1900 to 1953 the village was served by Battyeford railway station on the Leeds New Line.[1]
The village is part of the civil parish of Mirfield, and part of the Mirfield ward of the metropolitan borough of Kirklees. The borough council is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire.
Christ the King in Battyeford is an Anglican church and part of the Diocese of Wakefield.[2] It was built in 1973 on the site of the original Christ Church which was built in 1841 and destroyed by fire in 1971.[3]