Traditional county: West Yorkshire · District / Borough: Kirklees · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Briestfield, West Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Briestfield map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | Briestfield |
| Traditional County | West Yorkshire |
| District / Borough | Kirklees |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.652893 |
| Longitude | -1.650059 |
| Place Type | Village |
Briestfield, a corner of West Yorkshire, breathes the quiet resilience of the land. It lies 3.9 km south-east of Mirfield (from Mirfield: bearing 128°T, OS grid SE 232 174), and is situated east-south-east of Whitley Lower village. The fields surrounding Briestfield, often seen under a sky that can shift from brooding grey to a luminous, watery gold, recall generations of labour, the earth yielding its bounty through sun and stubborn rain. Though not a place of grand pronouncements, the quiet dignity of its scattered homes and the steadfast presence of its church speak of a continuity, a slow unfolding of lives rooted in this particular stretch of Yorkshire soil. The air here, particularly on a still morning, carries a faint, earthy scent, a reminder of the agricultural heritage that still whispers through the hedgerows.
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Explore Briestfield, West Yorkshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.652893, -1.650059. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |