Kettlethorpe,_West_Yorkshire

Kettlethorpe, West Yorkshire

Kettlethorpe, West Yorkshire

Human settlement in England

Kettlethorpe, originally a separate village, is a suburb that lies 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Wakefield city centre, in West Yorkshire, England.[1] The suburb has a secondary education school, Kettlethorpe High School, which is a specialist maths and computing college. It was deemed to be good by Ofsted in 2011 and again in 2016.[2]

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Kettlethorpe Hall was built in 1727[3] by the Pilkington family. It has been converted into two separate houses.

References

  1. [1]
    "278" (Map). Sheffield & Barnsley. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319244753.
  2. [2]
    Stuart, Tanya (12 January 2017). "Short inspection of Kettlethorpe High School, A Specialist Maths and Computing College" (PDF). ofsted.gov.uk. p. 1. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  3. [3]
    Howard Colvin, Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 3rd ed. (Yale University Press) 1995: note p. 136. "the identity of its architect is unknown" but singles it out, with the east wing of Wentworth Castle by Johann von Bodt, as an "almost unique example of Franco-Prussian architecture in Georgian England".

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