Denby Dale

Denby Dale
Holy Trinity Church [1]
Denby Dale is located in West Yorkshire
Denby Dale
Denby Dale
Location within West Yorkshire
Population16,365 (2011 Census)[2]
OS grid referenceSE229084
Civil parish
  • Denby Dale
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHUDDERSFIELD
Postcode districtHD8
Dialling code01484
PoliceWest Yorkshire
FireWest Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
53°34′19″N 1°39′18″W / 53.572000°N 1.655000°W / 53.572000; -1.655000

Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 8 miles north-west of Barnsley and 10 miles south-east of Huddersfield

The village is the main village in the Denby Dale civil parish that also covers Lower Denby, Upper Denby, Upper Cumberworth, Lower Cumberworth, Skelmanthorpe, Emley, Emley Moor and Clayton West. The parish had a population of 14,982 according to the 2001 census,[3] increasing to 16,365 at the 2011 census.[2] The parish council gives the electorate of the village itself as 2,143.[4] The River Dearne runs through the village; in the floods of 2007 it burst its banks on two occasions and caused damage to Springfield Mill.[5]

  1. ^ This church was opened in 1939 to replace a "tin church" dating from 1893.--Friends of Churchfield; history
  2. ^ a b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Denby Dale Parish (E04000181)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. ^ UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Denby Dale Parish (00CZ001)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Population by District". Denby Dale Parish Council. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
  5. ^ "Counting the costs of the floods". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 26 June 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2016.