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Upper Denby

Upper Denby is a small village within the civil parish of Denby Dale, and the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

The place

Upper Denby is a small village within the civil parish of Denby Dale, and the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upper Denby

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.

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Getting to Upper Denby

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 34 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 83 km
Stations
Denby Dale railway station, 1.5 km · Shelley railway station, 3.6 km · Skelmanthorpe railway station, 3.9 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Upper Denby
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £4.5–6
  • Liverpool → Upper Denby
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Upper Denby
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Upper Denby

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 Denby. 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

    317 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    320 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

    352 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    379 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upper Denby

Upper Denby is 23 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.