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Emley

Emley is a village in the parish of Denby Dale, in Huddersfield in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England.

Emley
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The place

Emley is a village in the parish of Denby Dale, in Huddersfield in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England. The village lies roughly in the middle of a triangle between Huddersfield, Wakefield and Barnsley. It is around 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Huddersfield, 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Wakefield and 10.5 miles (17 km) north-west of Barnsley. In the 2021 census it has a population of 1,434. The village dates from Anglo-Saxon times and is on high ground, close to the Emley Moor transmitting station. The village is the home of the famous non league football club Emley A.F.C.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Emley

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 28 km · Manchester (MAN), 52 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 86 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Emley
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Emley
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Emley
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Emley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Emley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.

From Wikivoyage: Holmfirth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    314 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    340 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    348 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    375 km

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Next door to Emley

Emley is 21 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.