About Birstall
About Birstall
ROTARY CLUB OF BIRSTALL LUDDITES. |
About Birstall
Birstall is large village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees. Situated centrally between Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Wakefield close to the M62 J27. LINK |
ROTARY CLUB OF BIRSTALL LUDDITES. |
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| Joeseph Priestley 1733-1804 |
Oakwell Hall | Bronte's in Birstall |
Luddites |
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Born in Birstall.
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Oakwell Hall is an
Elizabethan Manor House with a walled garden. Built in 1583, the Hall is now set out as it would have been in the 1690s, when it was the home of the Batt family. A mixture of authentic and reproductive furnishings provide a real insight into late 17th century life. Set in beautiful countryside where yoy can stroll around the delightful period garden or check the inhabitants of the wildlife garden. Birstall Luddites have in the period gardens of Oakwell an Oak commemorative bench in memory of Rotarian David Gregory who passed away in 2010, also the garden sun dial was a donation from the club. |
Red House Museum
1830s cloth merchants house with Bronte connections. Chorlottes friend Mary Taylor lived here at Red House it features in "Shirley" as Briarmans - the Taylors who lived there, a family of woollen cloth merchants. featured in the book as the Yorkes. |
In the early hours
of April 12th 1812 over 100 Luddites attacked Rawfolds Mill in Liversedge attempting to break the new and hated shearing machines. |
Black Bull Inn . 17 century Inn Link |
St Peters Church link also St Patricks Catholic Church-link |
 Birstall Market Place |
Battle of Adwalton Moor 30th June 1643 Link (2m north of Birstall) |
| Birstall Shopping Park M62 J27 |
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