Mount Tabor, West Yorkshire

Mount Tabor
Mount Tabor
	Mount Tabor Location within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE052272
• London	170 mi (270 km) SE
Metropolitan borough	Calderdale;
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Halifax
Postcode district	HX2
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire

Mount Tabor is a hamlet in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, named for the biblical Battle of Mount Tabor mentioned in the Book of Judges. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-west from Halifax town centre. The hamlet is in the Warley ward of Calderdale.

The hamlet is served by buses from Halifax bus station.

Hannah Cockroft's gold postbox

A post box in the hamlet is painted gold, to commemorate one of Hannah Cockroft's 2012 Summer Paralympics gold medals.

The author Whiteley Turner lived in Mount Tabor.[1]

References

"A moorland Saunter with Whiteley". Halifax Courier. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 29 April 2013.

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