Kinsley, West Yorkshire
Coordinates: 53°37′34″N 1°22′12″W / 53.626°N 1.370°W
Kinsley is a village in the civil parish of Hemsworth, and the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England.
Kinsley is a rural, ex-mining village. Its neighbouring villages are Fitzwilliam to the north, to which it is conjoined, and Hemsworth to the south-east.
The village is on the B6273 Wakefield Road, and approximately 7 miles (11 km) from Wakefield to the north-west and a similar distance from the towns of Pontefract and Castleford to the north. The M1 motorway is 8 miles (13 km) to the west, and the M62, 6 miles (10 km) to the north. A railway station at Fitzwilliam gives access to Wakefield, Leeds, Doncaster and Sheffield.
The village is probably best known for the Kinsley evictions of 15 August 1905, when 25 families were evicted from police during a strike at Hemsworth Colliery. They were made temporarily homeless, and eventually set up camp at Outwood Hall farm in Outwood, West Yorkshire.
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