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Shepley

Shepley is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

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The place

Shepley is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It lies 8 miles (13 km) south south east of Huddersfield and 6 miles (9.7 km) north west of Penistone.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shepley

3 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.

    2.8 km · Grade II listed church in the village of Thurstonland, in the parish of Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Town Hall

    Kirkburton Hall, formerly known as Kirkburton Town Hall, and before that, as Springfield House, is a former municipal building in Penistone Road in Kirkburton, a town in West Yorkshire in England. The building, which was previously the offices and meeting place of the Kirkburton Urban District Council and is now a private residence, is a grade II listed building.

    3.4 km · Grade II listed building in Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.5 km · railway viaduct in Denby Dale, Kirklees, 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.

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Getting to Shepley

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 46 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 80 km
Stations
Shepley railway station, 700 m · Denby Dale railway station, 3.4 km · Stocksmoor railway station, 1.4 km · Shelley railway station, 1.8 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Shepley
    36 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £4–6
  • Liverpool → Shepley
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Shepley
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shepley

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 Shepley. 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

    313 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    323 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    334 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    347 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    374 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shepley

Shepley is 24 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Denby Dalevillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK3.9 km
  • Kirkburtonvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK3 km
  • Upper Cumberworthvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Fulstonehamlet in Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England1.7 km
  • Birdsedgevillage in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom2 km
  • Thurstonlandvillage in the parish of Kirkburton, West Yorkshire, England, UK2.6 km