Denby Dale

Worth seeing in and around Denby Dale

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Whistlestop Valley

   Whistlestop Valley, formerly the Kirklees Light Railway, is a visitor attraction featuring a 3+1⁄2-mile long 15 in gauge minimum-gauge railway. The attraction's main site is in the village of Clayton West in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, which was first opened to the public on 19 October 1991, with a second, smaller site in a rural area near the village of Shelley.

   4 km · narrow gauge heritage railway in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Denby Dale Railway Viaduct

   Denby Dale Viaduct is a grade II listed railway viaduct in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, England. The curving viaduct carries the Penistone line over the Dearne valley in Denby Dale.

   500 m · railway viaduct in Denby Dale, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Denby Dale

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 33 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 83 km

Stations

Shepley railway station, 3.8 km · Denby Dale railway station, 500 m · Skelmanthorpe railway station, 2.6 km · Shelley railway station, 2.6 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Denby Dale

  40 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £4.5–6
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• Liverpool → Denby Dale

  89 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–13
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Denby Dale

  77 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–11
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