Mount Tabor, West Yorkshire
Appearance
Mount Tabor | |
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Location within West Yorkshire | |
OS grid reference | SE052272 |
• London | 170 mi (270 km) SE |
Metropolitan borough | |
Metropolitan county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Halifax |
Postcode district | HX2 |
Police | West Yorkshire |
Fire | West Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
Mount Tabor is a hamlet in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, named after the biblical Battle of Mount Tabor mentioned in the Book of Judges. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-west from Halifax town centre. The hamlet is in the Warley ward of Calderdale.
The hamlet is served by buses from Halifax bus station.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Hannah_Cockroft%27s_gold_postbox_in_Mount_Tabor%2C_West_Yorkshire_%281%29.jpg/170px-Hannah_Cockroft%27s_gold_postbox_in_Mount_Tabor%2C_West_Yorkshire_%281%29.jpg)
A post box in the hamlet is painted gold, to commemorate one of Hannah Cockroft's 2012 Summer Paralympics gold medals.
The author Whiteley Turner lived in Mount Tabor.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "A moorland Saunter with Whiteley". Halifax Courier. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
External links
[edit] Media related to Mount Tabor at Wikimedia Commons
- 59046499 Mount Tabor on OpenStreetMap