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Overton
OvertonLocation within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE260168
• London	160 mi (260 km) SSE
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	WF4
Dialling code	01924
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Wakefield
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°38′50″N 1°36′27″W / 53.6472°N 1.60763°W / 53.6472; -1.60763

Overton is a village between Wakefield and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. The village is situated approximately 5.5 miles (9 km) south-west of Wakefield, 4 miles (6 km) south of Ossett, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Netherton and 4 miles south-west of Horbury. Overton is conjoined at its north-east to the larger village of Middlestown. Coxley Woods are less than 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south-east.

Overton was historically called 'Over Shitlington', and was one of four villages in the township of 'Shitlington' in the civil parish of Thornhill. In 1881 Overton was in the county court district and Poor Law Union of Wakefield. Village occupations at the time included two farmers, a shopkeeper, the manager of "Cap House pit," and the landlords of The Reindeer and The Black Swan public houses. Shitlington was officially changed to Sitlington in 1929.

St Luke's Parish Church in Overton is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Middlestown with Netherton.

Overton is significant for the National Coal Mining Museum, situated on the A642. The former Caphouse Colliery was worked from at least 1789 until the coal was exhausted in 1985 when work was started to convert it to a museum.

See also

• Listed buildings in Sitlington

References

1. "Thornhill: Shitlington", The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868. Retrieved 15 January 2015
2. Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1881, p. 1382
3. Woodall, R.D. (1977), The Sitlington Story, Horbury School Publishing Committee, p. foreword. ISBN 0950598704
4. "Lesley Anne Mattacks", Diocese of Leeds. Retrieved 13 July 2016

External links

• Media related to Overton, West Yorkshire at Wikimedia Commons
• "Sitlington West Riding", A Vision of Britain Through Time. Retrieved 15 January 2015
• Coxley News - personal registrant web site for Netherton, Middlestown, Overton and Midgley
• Wakefield Council

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