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Holme Valley

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

Holme Valley
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Church 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
  2. 02
    Meltham 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
  3. 03
    Church 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
  4. 04
    Holme 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
  5. 05
    Digley 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 Valley
    31 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £3.5–5
  • Liverpool → Holme Valley
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Holme Valley
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    309 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    324 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    331 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    343 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    370 km

If you know how people move in Holme Valley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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