Soothill is a small village in the town of Batley, West Yorkshire, England. Soothill is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast from the town of Dewsbury and directly north of Hanging Heaton.[1] The name derives from the Old English "sot" and means a place where wood was burnt.[2]
Houses along Soothill Lane
Soothill was on the Great Northern Railway's Leeds to Batley branch line, although no station was provided.[3] The colliery at Soothill, adjacent to the railway, was the scene of a rail accident in February 1920 between a goods train and a passenger train. The accident was not fatal with only injuries being recorded.[4] The railway was closed in 1953[5] leaving a disused tunnel (Soothill Tunnel) north east of the settlement. This tunnel has been bricked up as it contains toxic gases.[6]
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^"History of Soothill, in Kirklees and West Riding". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
^Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4th ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 431. ISBN0198691033.
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