Kettlethorpe, originally a separate village, is a

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated ...

that lies south of

Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 109,766 in the 2021 census, up from 99,251 in the 2011 census. The city is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolit ...

city centre, in

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, England. The suburb has a secondary education school, Kettlethorpe High School, which is a specialist maths and computing college. It was deemed to be good by

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in 2011 and again in 2016. Kettlethorpe Hall was built in 1727Howard Colvin, ''Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840'', 3rd ed. (Yale University Press) 1995: note p. 136. "the identity of its architect is unknown" but singles it out, with the east wing of Wentworth Castle by Johann von Bodt, as an "almost unique example of Franco-Prussian architecture in Georgian England". by the Pilkington family. It has been converted into two separate houses.

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Suburbs of Wakefield {{WestYorkshire-geo-stub