Flockton
Map
Barnsley Road, Flockton
St James the Great Church, Flockton
Flockton Green Club
Sun Inn, Flockton
Flockton is a small former mining village and now mostly a residential village 6 miles east-south-east of Huddersfield and a similar distance south-west of Wakefield.
The village is surrounded by agricultural land and has views towards the TV mast at Emley Moor, Britain's tallest free-standing structure, a couple of miles away.
The village stretches for over a mile along the busy
A637
Barnsley Road. It is a narrow road in places but carries a lot of traffic as if forms the most direct route from Huddersfield to the
M1
motorway. Calls for a short bypass to take traffic away from the village have been made since the 1970s but it has never been created and the village has continued to experience a high number of vehicles passing through mitigated only by traffic calming chicanes, a reduced speed limit and a ban on heavy lorries.
At the heart of the village is St James the Great Church. The present building, dating from 1869 and grade II listed, has been altered to provide a community space. The village also had a Zion United Reformed Church, also grade II listed and dating from 1802. This church, also off Barnsley Road, was closed and put on the property market a few years ago. An old Methodist chapel in Barnsley Road, dating from 1841, has been converted to a house.
Flockton
The former Caphouse Colliery at Overton is just over one mile to the north east of Flockton and is now home to the National Coal
Mining Museum
for England.
Just to the east of Flockton is New Hall Prison, an adult women's prison which also accommodates young offenders and juveniles on detention and training orders.
To the west of the village, Flockton Moor is a small hamlet and moor about two miles along rural lanes from Flockton itself.
Around Flockton
Flockton has a newsagent and general store, a hairdresser and a motorcycle and farm equipment dealer specialising in motocross and quad bikes. The village post office closed in 2014.
The village has a fish and chip shop and a pizza outlet.
Flockton has pubs in Barnsley Road at each end of the village. Jack's (formerly the historic George and Dragon) at the end nearest to Wakefield and the Sun Inn at the end nearest to Huddersfield. Flockton Green Club is a social club in the centre of the village.
Food is available at the local pubs in Flockton.
The Richard Carter Community Centre is a self-contained community centre within St James the Great Church.
Richard Carter Community Centre
web page
Flockton C of E (C) First School
Flockton C of E (C) First School is in Barnsley Road.
Flockton C of E (C) First School
website
St James the Great Church is in Barnsley Road.
St James the Great
website
Flockton is in the Kirkburton ward of the metropolitan district of Kirklees.
Kirklees Council
website
It is also in the Flockton ward of the civil parish run by
Kirkburton
Parish Council.
Kirkburton Parish Council
website
Travel
Bus services
231
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Aspley
-
Moldgreen
-
Dalton
Wakefield Road
-
Waterloo
-
Tandem
-
Lepton
Greave House Terrace, Highgate Lane, Rowley Lane
-
Grange Moor
-
Flockton
- Midgley - Netherton
(Wakefield district)
- Horbury Bridge - Horbury - Wakefield
Timetable at
Metro
Timetables and information at
Arriva Yorkshire
232
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Aspley
-
Moldgreen
-
Dalton
Wakefield Road
-
Waterloo
-
Tandem
-
Lepton
Greave House Terrace, Highgate Lane, Rowley Lane
-
Flockton Moor
- Emley Moor -
Emley
-
Flockton
- Overton - Middlestown - Horbury Bridge - Horbury - Wakefield
Timetable at
Metro
Timetables and information at
Arriva Yorkshire
Road travel
Flockton is on the
A637
Barnsley Road which is reached via the
A629
and
A642
from Huddersfield.
Although as near to Huddersfield as Wakefield and in the Kirklees rather than the Wakefield metropolitan district, Grange Moor addresses have WF Wakefield postcodes. A line with Flockton in the address is generally useful for geographic rather than postal round location.
Also in Huddersfield.guide
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Other places near Flockton:
Emley
Flockton Moor
Grange Moor
Lepton
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