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Upper Cumberworth

Upper Cumberworth is a small village in West Yorkshire, England, within the civil parish of Denby Dale and the Diocese of Wakefield.

Upper Cumberworth
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The place

Upper Cumberworth is a small village in West Yorkshire, England, within the civil parish of Denby Dale and the Diocese of Wakefield. It is between the villages of Denby Dale and Shepley, above the village of Lower Cumberworth. It occupies a rural location, surrounded by fields and woodland but close to Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Sheffield by public transport or road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upper Cumberworth

One place 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
    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.

    1.4 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.

Go there

Getting to Upper Cumberworth

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 47 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 82 km
Stations
Stocksmoor railway station, 3.4 km · Shepley railway station, 2.1 km · Denby Dale railway station, 1.3 km · Shelley railway station, 1.3 km · Skelmanthorpe railway station, 2.8 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Upper Cumberworth
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £4.5–6
  • Liverpool → Upper Cumberworth
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Upper Cumberworth
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Upper Cumberworth

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 Upper Cumberworth. 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

    315 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    322 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    335 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    349 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    376 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upper Cumberworth

Upper Cumberworth is 25 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Denby Dalevillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK1.8 km
  • Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworthcivil parish in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England3 km
  • Shepleyvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Skelmanthorpevillage in the parish of Denby Dale in the Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England2.7 km
  • Upper Denbyvillage in Denby Dale, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Fulstonehamlet in Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England3.7 km