Editing Wakefield (section)

==History==
===Toponymy===
The name ''Wakefield'' may derive from 'Waca's field' – the open land belonging to someone named 'Waca' – or could have evolved from the [[Old English]] word ''wacu'', meaning 'a watch or wake', and ''feld'', an open field in which a wake or festival was held.<ref>{{Harvnb|Reaney|1964|p=161}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Mills|1998|p=361}}</ref> In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, it was written ''Wachefeld'' and also as ''Wachefelt''.

===Early history===
[[Flint]] and stone tools and later [[bronze]] and iron implements have been found at Lee Moor and Lupset in the Wakefield area showing evidence of human activity since prehistoric times.<ref>{{Harvnb|Walker|1966|p=3}}</ref> This part of Yorkshire was home to the [[Brigantes]] until the Roman occupation in AD&nbsp;43. A Roman road from [[Pontefract]] passing Streethouse, Heath Common, Ossett Street Side, through [[Kirklees]] and on to [[Manchester]] crossed the [[River Calder, West Yorkshire|River Calder]] by a ford at Wakefield near the site of [[Wakefield Bridge]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Walker|1966|p=24}}</ref> A large group of coin moulds, the [[Lingwell Gate coin moulds]], representing Romano-British coin forgery were found at Lingwell Gate between 1697 and 1879.<ref name='Til'>{{cite report |last=Tilley |first=Emily |title=Dirty Money: Lingwell Gate's Roman Coin Moulds |url=https://www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/04/MMN-Lingwell-Gate-Project-Report-FINAL-with-images.pdf |publisher=Yorkshire Museum |date=April 2021 |access-date=28 April 2021 |archive-date=27 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227010616/https://www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/04/MMN-Lingwell-Gate-Project-Report-FINAL-with-images.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Wakefield was probably occupied again, this time by the [[Angles (tribe)|Angles]], in the 5th or 6th&nbsp;century, and after AD&nbsp;876 the area was controlled by the [[Vikings]] who founded twelve hamlets or ''thorpes'' around Wakefield.{{refn|Wakefield's ''thorpes'' are: Alverthorpe, Chapelthorpe, Gawthorpe, Hollingthorpe, Kettlethorpe, Kirkthorpe, Milnthorpe, Ouchthorpe, Painthorpe, Snapethorpe, Woodthorpe, Wrenthorpe. Flanshaw, [[Kirkhamgate]], Carrgate and Lupset have [[Old Norse]] origins.<ref>{{Harvnb|Walker|1966|p=238}}</ref>|group="nb"}} They divided the area into [[wapentakes]] and Wakefield was part of the [[Agbrigg and Morley|Wapentake of Agbrigg]]. The settlement grew near a crossing place on the River Calder around three roads, [[Westgate (Wakefield)|Westgate]], [[Northgate (Wakefield)|Northgate]] and [[Kirkgate (Wakefield)|Kirkgate]].<ref name="Historic Wakefield EarlyHistory">{{cite web |title=EarlyHistory |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/History/default.htm |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=16 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127183057/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/History/default.htm |archive-date=27 January 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> The "gate" suffix derives from Old Norse ''{{lang|non|gata}}'' meaning road<ref>{{Harvnb|Mills|1998|p=403}}</ref> and kirk, from ''{{lang|non|kirkja}}'' indicates there was a church.<ref>{{Harvnb|Mills|1998|p=405}}</ref>

Before 1066 the [[Manorialism|manor]] of Wakefield belonged to [[Edward the Confessor]] and it passed to [[William the Conqueror]] after the [[Battle of Hastings]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Walker|1966|p=43}}</ref> After the [[Norman conquest of England|Conquest]] Wakefield was a victim of the [[Harrying of the North]] in 1069 when William the Conqueror took revenge on the local population for resistance to Norman rule. The settlement was recorded as ''Wachfeld'' in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, and covered a much greater area than present day Wakefield, much of which was described as "waste".<ref name="Manor of Wakefield">{{cite web |title=Manor |url=http://midgleywebpages.com/index-3.html |publisher=midgleywebpages.com |access-date=16 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904060526/http://midgleywebpages.com/index-3.html |archive-date=4 September 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> The manor was granted by [[The Crown|the crown]] to [[William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey]] whose descendants, the Earls Warenne, inherited it after his death in 1088.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vO4GAAAAYAAJ&q=earl+warenne+wakefield+yorkshire&pg=PA111 |title=The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 1886 |date=30 July 2007 |access-date=5 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527214529/http://books.google.com/books?id=vO4GAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=earl+warenne+wakefield+yorkshire&source=web&ots=zHyItid2qF&sig=NgmkVHSzh4KIkcPFHyx4Re76s9A&hl=en |archive-date=27 May 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> The construction of [[Sandal Castle]] began early in the 12th&nbsp;century.<ref>{{Harvnb|Butler|1991|p=1}}</ref> A second castle, [[Wakefield Castle]], was built at Lawe Hill on the north side of the Calder but was abandoned.<ref>{{Harvnb|Creighton|2004|p=32}}</ref> Wakefield and its environs formed the [[Caput baroniae|caput]] of an extensive baronial holding by the Warennes that extended to [[Cheshire]] and [[Lancashire]]. The Warennes, and their [[feudal]] sublords, held the area until the 14th&nbsp;century, when it passed to their heirs.<ref>{{Harvnb|Holt|1997|p=19}}</ref>
Norman tenants holding land in the region included the [[Levett|Lyvet]] family at Lupset.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IrkHAAAAQAAJ&q=lyvet+king&pg=RA1-PA92 |title=Dodsworth's Yorkshire notes, the wapentake of Agbrigg, Roger Dodsworth, 1884 |date=20 April 2007 |access-date=5 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527130015/http://books.google.com/books?id=IrkHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA92&lpg=RA1-PA92&dq=lyvet+king&source=web&ots=M8In8xicy-&sig=yHEh-Mt-Z15w6jeWwKiVMie9-Y8&hl=en |archive-date=27 May 2013 |url-status=live |last1=Dodsworth |first1=Roger}}</ref>

The Domesday Book recorded two churches, one in Wakefield and one in [[Sandal Magna]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Lupton|1864|p=10}}</ref> The Saxon church in Wakefield was rebuilt in about 1100 in stone in the [[Norman architecture|Norman]] style and was continually enlarged until 1315 when the central tower collapsed. By 1420 the church was again rebuilt and was extended between 1458 and 1475.

In 1203 [[William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey]] received a grant for a market in the town.<ref name="Historic Wakefield 1066-1600">{{cite web |title=1066–1600 |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/History/1066-1600.htm |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=17 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204072731/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/History/1066-1600.htm |archive-date=4 February 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1204 [[John, King of England|King John]] granted the rights for a fair at the feast of [[All Saints' Day|All Saints]], 1 November, and in 1258 [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] granted the right for fair on the feast of Saint John the Baptist, 24 June. The market was close to the Bull Ring and the church.<ref name="Historic Wakefield 1066-1600"/> The townsfolk of Wakefield amused themselves in games and sports, the chief sport in the 14th&nbsp;century was [[archery]] and the [[Archery butts|butts]] in Wakefield were at the [[Ings]], near the river.<ref>{{Harvnb|Walker|1966|p=114}}</ref> Wakefield was dubbed the "Merrie City" in the [[Middle Ages]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Lupton|1864|p=46}}</ref>

[[File:Richard of York Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 858000.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|left|Memorial to the [[Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York|Duke of York]], killed in battle, 1460]]
During the [[Wars of the Roses]], [[Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York|Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York]] was killed on 30 December 1460 in the [[Battle of Wakefield]] near Sandal Castle. In [[medieval]] times Wakefield became an inland port on the Calder and centre for the woollen and [[Tanning (leather)|tanning]] trades. In 1538 [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]] described Wakefield as, "a very quick market-towne and meately large; well served of flesch and fisch, both from the se and by rivers, whereof divers be thereabout at hande, so that al vitaile is very gode chepe there. A right honest man shal fare well for two pens a meale". As preparation for the impending invasion by the [[Spanish Armada]] in April 1588, 400 men from the wapentake of Morley and Agbrigg were summoned to Bruntcliffe near [[Morley, West Yorkshire|Morley]] with their weapons. Men from Kirkgate, Westgate, Northgate and Sandal were amongst them and all returned by August.<ref>{{Harvnb|Walker|1966|p=414}}</ref>

At the time of the Civil War, Wakefield was a [[Cavalier|Royalist]] stronghold. An attack led by Sir [[Thomas Fairfax]] on 20 May 1643 captured the town for the [[Roundhead|Parliamentarians]]. Over 1500 troops were taken prisoner along with the Royalist commander, [[George Goring, Lord Goring|Lieutenant-General Goring]].<ref name="British Civil Wars">{{cite web |title=Civil War Yorkshire |url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/military/1643-yorkshire.htm |publisher=british-civil-wars.co.uk |access-date=17 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090308132810/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/military/1643-yorkshire.htm |archive-date=8 March 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1699 an Act of Parliament was passed creating the [[Aire and Calder Navigation]] which provided the town with access to the [[North Sea]].<ref name="Historic Wakefield 1600-1800">{{cite web |title=1600–1800 |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/History/1600-1800.htm |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=18 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220052616/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/History/1600-1800.htm |archive-date=20 February 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The first Registry of Deeds in the country opened in 1704 and in 1765 Wakefield's cattle market was established and became the one of largest in the north of England. The town was a centre for cloth dealing, with its own piece hall, the Tammy Hall, built in 1766.<ref name="Old Wakefield">{{cite web |title=Old Wakefield |url=http://www.oldtowns.co.uk/Yorkshire/wakefield.htm |publisher=oldtowns.co.uk |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927154838/http://www.oldtowns.co.uk/Yorkshire/wakefield.htm |archive-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the late 1700s [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] town houses and St John's Church were built to the north of the town centre.<ref name="Historic Wakefield 1600-1800"/><ref name="St Johns Church">{{cite web |title=St Johns Church |url=http://www.wakefield-stjohns.org.uk/stjohns/St_Johns_Church_History.html |publisher=St John's Church |access-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126131613/http://www.wakefield-stjohns.org.uk/stjohns/St_Johns_Church_History.html |archive-date=26 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Industrial Revolution===
[[File:Wakefield Westgate.jpg|thumb|right|Wakefield Westgate {{circa|1900}}]]
At the start of the 19th&nbsp;century Wakefield was a wealthy market town and inland port trading in wool and grain.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=7}}</ref> The [[Aire and Calder Navigation|Aire and Calder]] and [[Calder and Hebble Navigation]]s and the [[Barnsley Canal]] were instrumental in the development of Wakefield as an important market for grain and more was sold here than at any other market in the north. Large warehouses were built on the river banks to store grain from [[Norfolk]], [[Cambridgeshire]] and [[Lincolnshire]] to supply the fast-growing population in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. Great quantities of barley were grown in the neighbourhood and in 1885 more [[malt]] was made in Wakefield "than in any district of equal extent in the kingdom".<ref name="TDE">{{cite book |last=Lewis |first=Samuel |title=Wakefield (All Saints) |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51368#s5 |series=A Topographical Dictionary of England |publisher=British History Online |pages=432–436 |year=1848 |access-date=14 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017051015/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51368#s5 |archive-date=17 October 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> The market developed in the streets around the Bull Ring, and the cattle market between George Street and Ings Road grew to be one of the biggest in the country.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=89}}</ref> Road transport using [[Turnpike trust|turnpiked]] roads was important. Regular [[mail coach]]es departed to [[Leeds]], [[London]], Manchester, [[York]] and [[Sheffield]] and the 'Strafford Arms' was an important [[coaching inn]].<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=73}}</ref> The railways arrived in Wakefield in 1840 when [[Wakefield Kirkgate railway station|Kirkgate station]] was built on the [[Manchester and Leeds Railway]].

When cloth dealing declined, wool spinning mills using steam power were built by the river. There was a glass works in Calder Vale Road, several [[Brewery|breweries]] including Melbourne's and Beverley's Eagle Breweries, engineering works with strong links to the mining industry, soapworks and brickyards in Eastmoor, giving the town a diverse economy.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=92}}</ref><ref name="Historic Wakefield 1800-1900"/> Boats and [[sloop]]s were built at yards on the Calder.<ref name="TDE"/> On the outskirts of the town, coal had been dug since the 15th&nbsp;century and 300 men were employed in the town's coal pits in 1831.<ref name="Old Wakefield"/> During the 19th&nbsp;century more mines were sunk so that there were 46&nbsp;small mines in Wakefield and the surrounding area by 1869.<ref name="Historic Wakefield 1800-1900">{{cite web |title=1800–1900 |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/History/1800-1900.htm |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129095442/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/History/1800-1900.htm |archive-date=29 January 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Galloway|1971|p=76}}</ref> The [[National Coal Board]] eventually became Wakefield's largest employer with Manor Colliery on Cross Lane and Park Hill colliery at Eastmoor surviving until 1982.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|pp=80,81}}</ref> Wakefield was also the site of the founding of the [[Miners' Association of Great Britain and Ireland]], the country's first national trade union for miners, in 1842.<ref>{{cite book |page=9 |title=Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry |first=B. J. |last=McCormick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSOwCwAAQBAJ&q=the+first+national+union+was+the+miners%27+association+of+great+britain&pg=PP8 |publisher=Springer |date=17 June 1979 |access-date=24 July 2020 |isbn=9781349039463}}</ref>

During the 19th&nbsp;century Wakefield became the administrative centre for the [[West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding]], when many familiar buildings were constructed.<ref name="Taylor 2008 43">{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=43}}</ref> The first civic building in Wood Street, [[Wakefield Court House]], was built in 1810.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=10 }}</ref> The [[Stanley Royd Hospital|West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum]] was built at Stanley Royd, just outside the town on Aberford Road in 1816. During the 19th&nbsp;century, the Wakefield Asylum played a central role in the development of British psychiatry, with [[Henry Maudsley]] and [[James Crichton-Browne]] amongst its medical staff. Most of it is now demolished. The old House of Correction of 1595 was rebuilt as [[Wakefield Prison]] in 1847.<ref name="Prison">{{cite web |title=Prison |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/Buildings/WakefieldPrison/History/default.htm |access-date=25 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524041735/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/Buildings/WakefieldPrison/History/default.htm |archive-date=24 May 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> Wakefield Union workhouse<ref name="workhouses">{{cite web |url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Wakefield/ |title=The Workhouse in Wakefield, Yorkshire, W. Riding |access-date=7 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104025410/http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Wakefield/ |archive-date=4 November 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> was built on Park Lodge Lane, Eastmoor in 1853 and Clayton Hospital was built in 1854 after a donation from Alderman Thomas Clayton.<ref name="Taylor 2008 43"/> [[Wakefield Mechanics' Institute]] containing an Assembly Room, public library and newsroom supported by subscription was built in Wood Street in 1820–1821 in the [[Classical style]] with [[Ionic order|Ionic]] details. Wakefield Literary Society ran there from 1827 until the 20th&nbsp;century and its Geological Society left artefacts to Wakefield Museum.<ref name="TDE"/>

Up to 1837 Wakefield relied on wells and springs for its water supply; water from the River Calder was polluted, and various water supply schemes were unsuccessful until [[reservoir]]s on the Rishworth Moors and a service reservoir at Ardsley were built providing clean water from 1888.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2008|p=60}}</ref>
By 1885 the streets of the town were paved and flagged and lit with gas supplied by a company incorporated in 1822.<ref name="TDE"/> Between 1870 and 1885 they made improvements on the north side of town around St John's Church now a [[conservation area]].<ref>{{cite web |title=St John's Conservation Area |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/E8944333-8A9A-4EF6-918B-07C1E1797E90/0/AppraisalManagementGuidelines_St_Johns.pdf |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=14 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626200003/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/E8944333-8A9A-4EF6-918B-07C1E1797E90/0/AppraisalManagementGuidelines_St_Johns.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===20th century===
On 2 June 1906, [[Andrew Carnegie]] opened a new Wakefield Library on Drury Lane which had been built with a grant of £8,000 from the Carnegie Trust.<ref>{{cite web |title=Free Public Carnegie Library – Drury Lane, Wakefield |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/Buildings/CarnegieLibraries/DruryLaneLibrary/default.htm |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=18 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611065832/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/Buildings/CarnegieLibraries/DruryLaneLibrary/default.htm |archive-date=11 June 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

There are seven [[Council house|ex-council estates]] in Wakefield which the council started to build after the [[First World War]], the oldest is Portobello, the largest is Lupset and the rest are [[Flanshaw]], Plumpton, Peacock, Eastmoor and [[Kettlethorpe, West Yorkshire|Kettlethorpe]]. Homes not bought by occupants under the [[Right to Buy]] scheme were transferred to a registered social landlord, Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) in 2005.<ref name="WDH">{{cite web |title=WDH |url=http://www.wdh.co.uk/QUICKLINKS/AboutUs/Pages/Default.aspx |publisher=wdh.co.uk |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218163826/http://www.wdh.co.uk/QuickLinks/AboutUs/Pages/Default.aspx |archive-date=18 December 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The outlying villages of [[Sandal Magna]], [[Belle Vue (Wakefield)|Belle Vue]] and [[Agbrigg]] have become suburbs of Wakefield.

The glass and textile industries closed in the 1970s and 1980s, and coal faced competition from alternative sources and demand decreased. The coal mines around Wakefield were amongst the first in Yorkshire to close under the government of [[Margaret Thatcher]], which altered the national energy policy from a reliance on British coal and opposed the political power of the [[National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)|NUM]]. Between 1979 and 1983, the pits at Lofthouse, Manor, Newmarket, Newmillerdam, Parkhill and Walton all closed.<ref>Colin Jackson, ''The Complete A-Z of Colliery Names, Pre-1947 Owners, Areas & Dates, Volume 2'', published by the National Coal Mining Museum for England, 2002</ref> As the Wakefield pits closed, the [[Selby Coalfield]] was being opened, many colliers in Wakefield accepted offers to transfer to the new pits which were built to facilitate commuting.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adeney |first1=Martin |last2=Lloyd |first2=John |date=1988 |title=The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Loss Without Limit |location=London |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |page=26 |isbn=0-7102-1371-9}}</ref>

An April 2021 article in ''[[The Guardian]]'' discussed nearby Heath (or Heath Common), the "village of the [200 year old] mansions", located "around the edge of the green". These housed the wealthy merchants and business owners.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/apr/08/10-of-britains-most-eccentric-villages-chosen-by-readers |title=10 of Britain's most eccentric villages: chosen by readers |date=8 April 2021 |work=The Guardian |access-date=9 April 2021 |archive-date=8 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210408220902/https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/apr/08/10-of-britains-most-eccentric-villages-chosen-by-readers |url-status=live }}</ref> The local newspaper published specifics about one of the mansions in March 2021: Dower House was built {{circa|1740}}; it was constructed for John Smyth by [[John Carr (architect)|John Carr]], of Yorkshire stone, and "retains many original features". It was intended to house widows.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/this-historic-home-is-for-sale-in-heath-the-village-of-mansions-3178608 |title=This historic home is for sale in Heath, the 'village of mansions' |work=The Wakefield Express |access-date=9 April 2021 |archive-date=25 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325203027/https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/this-historic-home-is-for-sale-in-heath-the-village-of-mansions-3178608 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://govisit-yorkshire.com/2019/03/20/heath/ |title=Heath |date=20 March 2019 |access-date=9 April 2021 |archive-date=23 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423080010/https://govisit-yorkshire.com/2019/03/20/heath/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Dower House is a Grade II*listed property; it was modified in the early 1800s.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1135585|desc=THE DOWER HOUSE, Warmfield cum Heath |access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref>

The nearby [[Heath Hall, Heath, West Yorkshire|Heath Hall, Heath]], West Yorkshire, formerly known as Eshald House, was also built {{circa|1709}} for the wealthy wool trader, John Smyth. The Hall was modified by John Carr between 1754 and 1780 for the original owner's nephew (also known as John Smyth). The Hall is a Grade I listed building.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1200238|desc=HEATH HALL, Warmfield cum Heath |access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref>