Overton is a village between

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and

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, England. The village is situated approximately south-west of Wakefield, south of

Ossett Ossett is a market town in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated between Dewsbury, Horbury and Wakefield. At the 2011 Census, the population was ...

, west of Netherton and 4 miles south-west of

Horbury Horbury is a town in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated north of the River Calder about three miles (5 km) south west of Wakefield and two miles (3 km) to the ...

. Overton is conjoined at its north-east to the larger village of Middlestown. Coxley Woods are less than to the south-east. Overton was historically called 'Over Shitlington',"Thornhill: Shitlington"
''The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland'' 1868. Retrieved 15 January 2015 and was one of four villages in the

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

of 'Shitlington' in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

of Thornhill. In 1881 Overton was in the

county court A county court is a court based in or with a jurisdiction covering one or more counties, which are administrative divisions (subnational entities) within a country, not to be confused with the medieval system of ''county courts'' held by the high ...

district and Poor Law Union of Wakefield. Village occupations at the time included two farmers, a shopkeeper, the manager of "Cap House pit," and the

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of The Reindeer and The Black Swan

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s.''

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of the West Riding of Yorkshire'', 1881, p. 1382 Shitlington was officially changed to

Sitlington Sitlington, historically Shitlington, was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Thornhill in the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire comprising the villages and hamlets of Middlestown, Netherton, Ove ...

in 1929.

Sitlington - National Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery

St Luke's Parish Church in Overton is part of the

ecclesiastical parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish priest ...

of Middlestown with Netherton."Lesley Anne Mattacks"
Diocese of Leeds. Retrieved 13 July 2016 Overton is significant for the

National Coal Mining Museum The National Coal Mining Museum for England is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum and was granted national status in 1995. History Caphouse C ...

, situated on the A642. The former

Caphouse Colliery Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Denby Grange estate owned by the Lister Kaye family, and was worked from the 18th century until ...

was worked from at least 1789 until the coal was exhausted in 1985 when work was started to convert it to a museum.

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"Sitlington West Riding"
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''. Retrieved 15 January 2015
Coxley News
- personal registrant web site for Netherton, Middlestown, Overton and Midgley
Wakefield Council
Villages in West Yorkshire Geography of the City of Wakefield {{WestYorkshire-geo-stub

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