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Upper Denby

Human settlement in England

Kirklees

West Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and the Humber

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List of places: UK; England; Yorkshire

53°33′36″N 1°39′18″W / 53.560°N 1.655°W / 53.560; -1.655

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 820 feet (250 m) above sea level.

The southern edge of the village is bordered by the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley within the county of South Yorkshire.

The village

It has a pub (The George Inn), a dentist, a church (St John the Evangelist)^[2] and cricket ground. (The Denby Cricket Club are in the Huddersfield Cricket League)

Upper Denby is home to Denby C of E first school.^[3]

In the 2001 census the population was given as 719 and included the settlement of High Flatts.^[4] By the 2011 census, this had dropped to a population of 715.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Upper Denby Built-up area (E34000031)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^ "St John the Evangelist - A Church Near You". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^ "Denby Church Of England Voluntary Aided First School - Home". www.denbyfirstschool.kirklees.sch.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^ "Upper Denby Conservation Area Appraisal" (PDF). kirklees.gov.uk. p. 3. Retrieved 16 July 2019.