Thornhill Community Academy

Thornhill Community Academy is an 11–16 coeducational secondary school with academy status situated just outside Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, on the western side of Kirklees (Huddersfield) and near the M1 and the M62 motorways. It serves both the urban and rural areas of Dewsbury and draws from the villages of Thornhill, Thornhill Lees and Savile Town. In September 2025, the school had a total of 910 pupils enrolled, despite only having capacity for 900 students. The school attracted national attention in 2013 after being featured on the British television documentary Educating Yorkshire which won Most Popular Documentary Series at the National Television Awards. Educating... returned to Thornhill Community Academy through the 2024-25 academic year to film for the seventh series, airing between August and October 2025.

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Thornhill, West Yorkshire

Thornhill is a village on the southern outskirts of Dewsbury in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Thornhill was absorbed into Dewsbury County Borough in 1910. The village is located on a ridge on the south side of the River Calder. Dewsbury, Ossett and Wakefield are close by. Its parish church houses a collection of Anglo-Saxon crosses.

Thornhill Grammar School

Thornhill Grammar School was built in Thornhill near Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, England. In 1642 the Rev Charles Greenwood bequeathed £500 to build and endow a free school. The former school building is dated 1643 and now disused. The rear part of the building was built as a copy in 1884. It is a grade II listed building.

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Thornhill Hall

Thornhill Hall was a medieval manor house and its ruins survive on a moated island in Rectory Park, Thornhill, West Yorkshire, England. The ruins are listed as grade II. and the moat, with the surrounding grounds, is a scheduled monument. Excavations carried out between 1964 and 1972 proved that there had been two halls on the island, a 13th-century building with clay-bonded foundation walls, and a later stone H-plan building from about 1450. The later building showed signs of renovation in the 16th century, when a paved floor, plaster walls and a chimney were added.

Overton, West Yorkshire

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.