Woodkirk

Woodkirk is an ancient village between Leeds and Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England.

[1] It is traditionally the centre of the parish of West Ardsley, but Tingley is now a much larger settlement.

The school opened in the late 1940s and had over 1,800 students at itslast full Ofsted inspection in 2013 (in which it was rated as being Good).

[7] Woodkirk was once served by its own railway station, which closed to passengers around 1939, right at the very start of World War II, but the line, which once passed by, continued a further 25 years until its final closure, in 1964.

[8] However, the former station site, in Woodkirk itself, still stands though it is now derelict and disused, like the Soothill Tunnel.