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 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.
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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.
- 01Denby 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
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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 Cumberworth37 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £4.5–6
- Liverpool → Upper Cumberworth87 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Upper Cumberworth78 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
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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.
- Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.
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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