Flockton

Barnsley Road, FlocktonSt James the Great Church, FlocktonFlockton Green ClubSun Inn, FlocktonFlockton 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.

FlocktonThe 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

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.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Yorkshire Sculpture ParkThe Yorkshire Sculpture Park is around nine miles east of Huddersfield at West Bretton. The park is set in around 200 hectares of beautiful parkland within the Bretton Estate adjoining Bretton Hall and offers what is probably the finest outdoor exhibition space in the country for modern sculpture, attracting regional, national and international exhibits.

Find out more on our Sculpture Park page.

Local government

Civil parish council

Flockton is in the Flockton ward of the civil parish run by Kirkburton Parish Council.

Kirkburton Parish Council website

Metropolitan district council

Flockton is in the Kirkburton ward of Kirklees Council.

Kirklees Council website

Travel

Bus services

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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

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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

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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.

Other places near Flockton: Emley Flockton Moor Grange Moor Lepton

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