Kettlethorpe, West Yorkshire

Kettlethorpe
Kettlethorpe
	Kettlethorpe High School Community Learning Centre
	Kettlethorpe Location within West Yorkshire
Metropolitan borough	City of Wakefield;
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WAKEFIELD
Postcode district	WF2
Dialling code	01924
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°38′38″N 1°30′21″W / 53.6440°N 1.5057°W

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]

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

References

^ "278" (Map). Sheffield & Barnsley. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319244753.
^ 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.
^ 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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[1] "278" (Map). Sheffield & Barnsley. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319244753.

[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] 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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