14 Facts About West Bretton

West Bretton is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.

Swein de West Bretton granted the right to pasture 200 cattle and sheep on land north of the village to the monks of Byland Abbey.

West Bretton's estates were returned and he was knighted in 1660 when the monarchy was restored.

West Bretton Hall was built by Sir William Wentworth who inherited the estate in 1706.

West Bretton was a Captain of Horse in the Trained Guards in the Jacobite rising of 1745.

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West Bretton changed his name to Blackett, his mother's name, when he inherited the Blackett fortune.

West Bretton was unmarried but his illegitimate daughter Diana, wife of Lt Colonel Thomas Beaumont MP for Northumberland inherited the estate.

The furnace at West Bretton supplied pig iron to Colnebridge, Wortley Top Forge and Kirkstall in 1728.

The furnace at West Bretton was taken over by the Cockshutts of Wortley and pig iron was produced there in 1806 but the site had closed by 1820.

Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the chapelry of West Bretton was partly in the parish of Sandal Magna in the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley and partly in the parish of Silkstone in the wapentake of Staincross.

West Bretton became part of Wakefield Rural District, created in 1894 and abolished 1974, when it became part of the City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.

West Bretton covers 849 acres of hilly land from 122 metres to 152 metres above sea level.

West Bretton is on the A637 Barnsley to Huddersfield road, south west of the junction with the A636 Wakefield to Denby Dale road and close to the M1 motorway, which passes to the east of the village.

West Bretton was divided between the parishes of Sandal Magna and Silkstone and a chapel of ease was built by the Dronfields in 1358.