Kirkheaton
Kirkheaton is a village and former civil parish north-east of Huddersfield, now in the parish of Kirkburton, in the county of West Yorkshire, England, Historically, it is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is in the Dalton ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. In 1931 the parish had a population of 2,610. History. The name Heaton comes from Old English "Heah" meaning high and "tun" meaning settlement along with Old Norse "Kirk" meaning church. Governance. On 1 April 1938 the parish was abolished and merged with Kirkburton and Huddersfield. From 1894 to 1938 Kirkheaton was  also an urban district. Parish Church. The Parish church in Kirkheaton, dedicated to St John the Baptist, is one of the earliest churches in the area, there was a stone church on the site before the Norman Conquest. In the churchyard is a fine memorial to a disaster which shook the nation in 1818, a horrific fire in a local cotton mill, Colne Bridge Mill, in which 14 workers, all girls and many of them very young, were trapped and lost their lives. Education. Kirkheaton has a primary school, Kirkheaton Primary School, which is situated on New Road.