Lepton
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Lepton
Chimney Lane, Lepton
Lepton
Lepton is a village around 4 miles east-south-east of Huddersfield town centre high on the hillside on the eastern side of the valley of Fenay Beck.
While now largely a dormitory village, Lepton originally grew around industries including cloth-weaving, coal-mining, farming, a brickworks and firework-making.
Lepton is surrounded mostly by agricultural land with Lepton Great Wood to the south.
Around Lepton
Although there are various shops dotted around Lepton, the village centre is in modern buildings around The Square at Highgate Lane with shops extending along Highgate Lane towards The Sun Inn. They include a bakery, newsagent, hairdresser, Co-operative food store and a funeral home. There is also a Spar shop at a petrol filling station on the A642 Wakefield Road which by-passes the centre of Lepton.
The Sun Inn, Highgate Lane, Lepton
The village has a pharmacy near the surgery in Highgate Lane.
Lepton post office is in Highgate Lane.
The Sun Inn at Highgate Lane is the village pub.
Lepton has a bar and restaurant at Wakefield Road near Lepton Edge, which also offers accommodation.
Lepton has takeaways selling fish and chips, Asian food, pizzas, curries and kebabs.
Lepton Highlanders is a sports and social club with a club house and sports fields at Wakefield Road near Lepton Edge offering football, cricket, darts and dominoes for juniors and adults.
Lepton Highlanders
social media page.
Lepton CE Primary Academy is in Station Road, Lepton.
Lepton CE Primary Academy
website.
Rowley Lane Junior, Infant and Nursery School is in Rowley Lane, Lepton.
Rowley Lane School
website.
St John's Church, Lepton
St John's Church, Lepton, is in Green Balk Lane.
St John's Church, Lepton
website.
Lepton Methodist Church is at The Square in Highgate Lane.
Lepton Methodist Church
website.
Lepton is mostly in the Almondbury ward (but areas east of the junction of Rowley Lane and Wakefield Road are in the Kirkburton ward) of the metropolitan district of Kirklees.
Kirklees Council
website.
Lepton is mostly in the Lepton ward (but areas east of the junction of Rowley Lane and Wakefield Road are in the Lepton and Whitley Upper ward) of the civil parish run by Kirkburton Parish Council.
Kirkburton Parish Council
website.
Travel
Bus services
D3
Monday - Saturday daytime
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Aspley
-
Moldgreen
-
Dalton
Wakefield Road
-
Waterloo
Morrisons
-
Fenay Bridge
Penistone Road
-
Lepton
Highgate Crescent, Rowley Lane
-
Kirkburton
North Road, Riley Lane
-
Shelley
Penistone Road
-
Shepley
Marsh Lane, The Sovereign crossroads
-
Birds Edge
-
High Flatts
-
Upper Denby
-
Lower Denby
-
Denby Dale
Village centre and station
Penistone line
.
Timetable at
Metro
Timetables and information at
Team Pennine
231
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Aspley
-
Moldgreen
-
Dalton
Wakefield Road
-
Waterloo
-
Tandem
-
Lepton
Greave House Terrace, Highgate Lane, Rowley Lane
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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
X41
Monday - Friday daytime
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Moldgreen
-
Dalton
Wakefield Road
-
Waterloo
-
Fenay Bridge
Penistone Road, Station Road
-
Lepton
Highgate Lane, Rowley Lane, Town End Lane, Botany Lane
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Whitley Willows
-
Houses Hill
-
Grange Moor
- Overton
National Coal Mining Museum, Black Bull
- Middlestown
Some journeys part route:
Huddersfield - Lepton;
Huddersfield - Grange Moor then direct route back to Lepton on return journey.
Timetable at
Metro
Timetables
(.pdf format)
at
South Pennine Community Transport
Road travel
The
A642
Wakefield Road passes through the edge of Lepton. The
B6433
Rowley Lane also passes through Lepton, linking the
A642
with the
A629
Penistone Road.
Also in Huddersfield.guide
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Other places near Lepton:
Fenay Bridge
Gawthorpe
Grange Moor
Highburton
Houses Hill
Kirkburton
Lascelles Hall
Tandem
Whitley Willows
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