Located centrally between Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Wakefield close to the M62 Motorway, Birstall has recently seen massive incubation due to the construction of the retail park featuring an Ikea store and cinema complex.

Birstall doesn't feature in the Domesday book but is alluded to as a Parish of Gomersal, and according to 'Pigot's National Commericial Directory for 1828-29' these are one of a quaternary villages which produce higher a town of Gomersal.

Within modern days Birstall is typically referenced for itinerant signage & postal location purposes as a district of Batley.

History
Birstall is virtually all famously a birthplace of Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of Oxygen.

Its efflorescence when you took a Industrial Revolution as part of the Heavy Woollen District saw massive growth & a architecture of the period of time is however dominates now.

Virtually all notable of the features of this cycle is the cobbled market place sporting a statue of Priestly which was erected in the early 20th century.

Birstall features a picturesque St Peter's church dating to the period of Henry VIII and Oakwell Hall, an Elizabethan manor house romanticised by Charlotte Brontë as 'Fieldhead'.

Likewise of interest is an 18th century windmill which stands in the evidence of St Saviour's Junior School & has provided local list like 'Windmill Estate' & 'Millers Croft'.