Lepton

LeptonChimney Lane, LeptonLeptonLepton 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.

Places to visit

National Coal Mining Museum for England

National Coal Mining Museum for EnglandThe National Coal Mining Museum for England is situated on the main A642 at Overton mid-way between Huddersfield and Wakefield. The museum is in the former Caphouse Colliery and has a wide range of exhibits reflecting the coal mining history of the Yorkshire coalfield and beyond and also offers an underground tour down the mine.

Find out more on our Mining Museum page.

Local government

Civil parish council

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.

Metropolitan district council

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.

Travel

Bus services

D3 Monday - Saturday daytime

D3 at Upper DenbyHuddersfield 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

231 at LeptonHuddersfield 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

232 at FlocktonHuddersfield 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 WITHDRAWN

Huddersfield Bus station - Moldgreen - Dalton Wakefield Road - Waterloo - Fenay Bridge Penistone Road, Station Road - Lepton Highgate Lane, Rowley Lane, Town End Lane, Botany Lane - Whitley Willows - Houses Hill - Grange Moor - Overton National Coal Mining Museum, Black Bull - Middlestown

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.

Other places near Lepton: Fenay Bridge Gawthorpe Grange Moor Highburton Houses Hill Kirkburton Lascelles Hall Tandem Whitley Willows

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