Kinsley Greyhound Stadium

Kinsley is a village in the civil parish of Hemsworth, and the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. Kinsley is a rural, ex-mining village. Its neighbouring villages are Fitzwilliam to the north, to which it is conjoined, and Hemsworth to the south-east. The village is on the B6273 Wakefield Road, and approximately 7 miles (11 km) from Wakefield to the north-west and a similar distance from the towns of Pontefract and Castleford to the north. The M1 motorway is 8 miles (13 km) to the west, and the M62, 6 miles (10 km) to the north. A railway station at Fitzwilliam gives access to Wakefield, Leeds, Doncaster and Sheffield.

Fitzwilliam railway station is in the small village of Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire, England. It is also the closest station to the nearby town of Hemsworth. The station is on the Wakefield Line operated by Northern. Trains run from Fitzwilliam to Leeds via Wakefield Westgate, Doncaster and Sheffield. The current station was opened on 1 March 1982 as one of series of improvements to local rail services made by the West Yorkshire PTE (Passenger Transport Executive). This replaced the LNER station several hundred metres to the north, which opened as "Fitzwilliam Halt" on 1 July 1937 but fell victim to the Beeching cuts within little more than 30 years, closing on 6 November 1967. Unlike its modern incarnation, the original station consisted of a single island platform, accessed from the adjacent road bridge. The line was electrified in 1988.

Fitzwilliam is a small village on the edge of West Yorkshire, England, in the City of Wakefield district. The village falls within the Hemsworth ward of Wakefield City Council.

Hemsworth Miners Welfare Football Club is a football club based in Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, England. They are currently members of the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Premier Division and play at the Just Football MDC Stadium in Fitzwilliam.

Hemsworth was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Hemsworth is a constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons since 1996 by Jon Trickett of the Labour Party.Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to moderate boundary changes, losing the Wakefield South ward and gaining Normanton. Accordingly, it will be renamed Normanton and Hemsworth, to be first contested at the next general election.

Outwood Academy Hemsworth, known previously as Hemsworth Arts and Community Academy and Hemsworth Arts and Community College, is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Hemsworth in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.The school is operated by Outwood Grange Academies Trust, and the principal Toby Rutter.

Brackenhill is a village in West Yorkshire, England, which forms part of Ackworth parish. It is situated on the A638 road on the eastern bank of Hessle Beck, west of Ackworth Moor Top and north of Fitzwilliam Country Park. A major industry in Brackenhill was quarrying, and at the end of the 19th century the majority of the male inhabitants of the village were occupied in the quarries. The stone is counted among the Pennine Upper Coal Measures which originated in the Carboniferous age. Quarried materials include magnesian limestone and sandstone. The quarries were served from 1914 to 1962 by the Brackenhill Light Railway, a subsidiary of the London and North Eastern Railway. It branched off the line between Sheffield and York east of Ackworth and joined the line between Wakefield and Doncaster at Hemsworth Colliery near Fitzwilliam. Brackenhill inhabitants also worked in Hemsworth Colliery.

Hemsworth railway station served the town of Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, England from 1866 to 1967 on the West Riding and Grimsby Railway.

Hemsworth is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire and had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, with it increasing to 13,533 at the 2011 Census.

Wragby is a hamlet and former parish in the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Hessle and Hill Top, although on the border of Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell. The village is on the A638 road from Wakefield to Doncaster, immediately east of the National Trust property of Nostell Priory. Wilson's 1870-1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales describes Wragby as a parish in Hemsworth district, with one village and five townships, and a population of 594 people in 192 houses, where "coal and building-stone are worked; and bricks, tiles, and pipes are made." Wragby was part of the historic county of the West Riding of Yorkshire until April 1974. The village was also part of the ancient Wapentake of Staincross. Wragby's parish church, situated in the grounds of Nostell Priory and not in the village, is the grade I listed Church of St Michael and Our Lady. The church was built in the 1520s-1530s, and contains some earlier Romanesque fragments, and a collection of Swiss stained glass, dating from the early-16th to mid-18th centuries, which has been described as "second largest private collection of Swiss glass panels in the world". A weekly parish eucharist service is held, and the church is in use for weddings. The village has, or had, a pub, the Spread Eagle, with records of landlords dating back to 1822 although the building may be older. As of 2024 it is reported to be "temporarily closed by the brewery".

Normanton and Hemsworth is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Created as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election.