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Birstall village centre. Birstall lies on the A6 and is the last major settlement before Leicester when arriving from the north. Birstall thus forms part of the Leicester Urban Area. The village centre lies just off the A6, along Sibson Road. The village contains two supermarkets, a garden centre and a variety of other shops.
Birstall is a market and mill town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of the Birstall and Birkenshaw ward, which had a population of 16,298 at the 2011 census. [ 3 ]
Birstall may refer to: Birstall, Leicestershire, a large village and civil parish; Birstall, West Yorkshire, a large village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees;
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Oakwell Hall is an Elizabethan manor house in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England. The Grade I listed hall [ 1 ] is set in period gardens surrounded by 110 acres (0.45 km 2 ) of country park. The house was built for John Batte.
To the south of the borough, Birstall, Queniborough, Thurmaston and Syston form part of the Leicester Urban Area, while Quorn and Shepshed (the second-largest town in the district), amongst others, might be considered to be part of a Loughborough urban agglomeration.
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The park includes three Local Nature Reserves, Reedbed – Watermead Country Park (North), [2] [3] Watermead Country Park – South [4] [5] and Birstall Meadows. [6] [7] The northernmost lake is named John Merricks Lake, after the late John Merricks, a silver Olympic medallist who competed in sailing events on a nearby lake as a schoolboy. He ...