Mount Tabor, West Yorkshire Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:53.741°N -1.92°W
Official Name:Mount Tabor
Pushpin Map:United Kingdom Calderdale
Metropolitan Borough:Calderdale
Metropolitan County:West Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Post Town:Halifax
Postcode Area:HX
Postcode District:HX2
Os Grid Reference:SE052272
London Distance Mi:170
London Direction:SE

Mount Tabor is a hamlet in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, named after the biblical Battle of Mount Tabor mentioned in the Book of Judges. It is situated approximately 3miles north-west from Halifax town centre. The hamlet is in the Warley ward of Calderdale.

The hamlet is served by buses from Halifax bus station.

A post box in the hamlet is painted gold, to commemorate one of Hannah Cockroft's 2012 Summer Paralympics gold medals.

The author Whiteley Turner lived in Mount Tabor.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: A moorland Saunter with Whiteley. 18 October 2007. Halifax Courier. 29 April 2013.