Kirkheaton (English: /ˈkərkhiːtən/) is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England, Historically, it is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

It is 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Huddersfield, in the Dalton ward of Kirklees Council.

In the churchyard is a memorial to a disaster that shook the nation in 1818, a horrific fire in a local cotton mill, Colne Bridge Mill, in which 14 workers, all girls and many of them very young, were trapped and died.

[7][8] See the 'External Links' below for a survey of burials and transcripts of the parish registers.

Kirkheaton Primary School is on New Road.