Battyeford

Battyeford is a village which is now part of the town of Mirfield in West Yorkshire, England.

Battyeford
The Pear Tree Inn, Battyeford
Battyeford Location within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE191205
Civil parish	Mirfield
Metropolitan borough	Kirklees
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MIRFIELD
Postcode district	WF14
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Dewsbury
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53.681°N 1.712°W / 53.681; -1.712

History

From 1900 to 1953 the village was served by Battyeford railway station on the Leeds New Line.^[1]

Governance

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.

Religious sites

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]