Traditional county: West Yorkshire · District / Borough: Kirklees · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Upper Heaton, West Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Upper Heaton 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 | Upper Heaton |
| Traditional County | West Yorkshire |
| District / Borough | Kirklees |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.667442 |
| Longitude | -1.732560 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Upper Heaton rests in the undulating landscape of West Yorkshire, a quiet testament to the region's enduring rural character. It lies 2.5 km west-south-west of Mirfield (from Mirfield: bearing 253°T, OS grid SE 177 190), and is situated north-north-west of Kirkheaton village. The hamlet's scattered dwellings often catch the soft, diffused light that filters through the Yorkshire skies, lending a gentle hue to the stone walls and hardy hedgerows. Fields, a patchwork of greens and golds depending on the season, roll away towards the horizon, their quiet expanse broken only by the occasional solitary tree or a distant farmstead. The air here carries the faint, earthy scent of damp soil and cultivated land, a constant reminder of the agricultural roots that continue to shape Upper Heaton.
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Explore Upper Heaton, 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: 53.667442, -1.732560. 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. |