Static Image Name: | Upper Denby Church - geograph.org.uk - 168028.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Upper Denby Church |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 53.56°N -1.655°W |
Map Type: | West Yorkshire |
Official Name: | Upper Denby |
Population: | 715 |
Population Ref: | (2011 census) |
Metropolitan Borough: | Kirklees |
Metropolitan County: | West Yorkshire |
Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Constituency Westminster: | Wakefield |
Post Town: | Huddersfield |
Postcode District: | HD8 |
Postcode Area: | HD |
Dial Code: | 01484 |
Os Grid Reference: | SE229073 |
Upper Denby is a small village within the civil parish of Denby Dale, and the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.
Lying 7 miles north-west of Barnsley and 11 miles to the south-east of Huddersfield and 2 miles south of Denby Dale, on an east facing slope of the Pennines, it occupies a position above sea level.
The southern edge of the village is bordered by the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley within the county of South Yorkshire.
It has a pub (The George Inn), a dentist, a church (St John the Evangelist)[1] and cricket ground. (The Denby Cricket Club are in the Huddersfield Cricket League)
Upper Denby is home to Denby C of E first school.[2]
In the 2001 census the population was given as 719 and included the settlement of High Flatts.[3] By the 2011 census, this had dropped to a population of 715.