Holme Valley
Holme Valley, formerly Holmfirth, is a large civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

Holme Valley, formerly Holmfirth, is a large civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. The parish is the successor to the Holmfirth urban district. It has a population of 25,049, increasing to 34,680 for the two wards in the 2011 Census. Its administrative centre is in Holmfirth. Other sizeable settlements in the parish include, Brockholes, Honley and New Mill. It is named from the River Holme that runs through the parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Holme Valley
5 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.
- 01Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland
The Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland, West Yorkshire, England, is an Anglican church. It is an Arts and Crafts building in Gothic Revival style, designed by James Mallinson and William Swinden Barber, and completed in 1870.
3.4 km · Grade II listed church in the village of Thurstonland, in the parish of Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Meltham Town Hall
Meltham Town Hall is a municipal building in Carlile Street in Meltham, West Yorkshire, England. The building, which formerly operated as the offices of Meltham Urban District Council, is now The Crossroads Centre, which operates the local foodbank.
3.4 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia - 03Church of the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church, Holmfirth is an Anglican church in the town of Holmfirth in West Yorkshire, England. Holmfirth's chapelry historically covered townships which lay on or near the boundary between the parishes of Kirkburton and Almondbury: Wooldate, Hepworth and Cartworth in Kirkburton, and Holme, Austonley and Upperthong in Almondbury.
1.7 km · church in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Holme Valley war memorial
Holme Valley War Memorial is a war memorial in the grounds of the Holme Valley Memorial Hospital Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, in England. It was unveiled in July 1921, by Colonel H. R. Headlam, who had previously commanded the 5th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.
1.2 km · English monument · Wikipedia - 05Digley Reservoir
Digley Reservoir is a reservoir located downstream of Bilberry Reservoir, 2 miles south west of Holmfirth, in West Yorkshire, England. The reservoir was planned during the 1930s, with much land being bought for its construction, but it was not completed until 1954.
3.6 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Holme Valley
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 33 km · Manchester (MAN), 41 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 75 km
- Stations
- Brockholes railway station, 2.5 km · Honley railway station, 3 km · Holmfirth bus station, 1.7 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Holme Valley31 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £3.5–5
- Liverpool → Holme Valley80 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Holme Valley80 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Holme Valley
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 Holme Valley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.
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Next door to Holme Valley
Holme Valley is 24 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kirkleesmetropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England1.1 km
- Melthamvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.4 km
- Holmfirthtown in West Yorkshire, England1.7 km
- Honleyvillage in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England2.2 km
- Armitage Bridgevillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Wooldalevillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.3 km