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Upperthong

Upperthong is a village approximately 807 feet (246 m) above sea level, in the civil parish of Holme Valley, in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, near the town of Holmfirth, approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Huddersfield.

Upperthong
Upperthong · Richard Harvey
The place

Upperthong is a village approximately 807 feet (246 m) above sea level, in the civil parish of Holme Valley, in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, near the town of Holmfirth, approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Huddersfield. In 2005, Kirklees Council stated that the population of Upperthong was 1,116; by 2019, the figure was 1,938.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upperthong

4 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 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.

    1.4 km · church in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    1.7 km · English monument · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.4 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.7 km · municipal Building in England · 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 Upperthong

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 34 km · Manchester (MAN), 40 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 74 km
Stations
Brockholes railway station, 3.7 km · Holmfirth bus station, 1.3 km
  • Liverpool → Upperthong
    79 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Upperthong
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Upperthong
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Upperthong

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 Upperthong. 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

    322 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    330 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    344 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    371 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upperthong

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

  • Kirkleesmetropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England2.4 km
  • Melthamvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Holmfirthtown in West Yorkshire, England1.3 km
  • Holme Valleycivil parish in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK1.4 km
  • Hepworthvillage in West Yorkshire, UK3.8 km
  • Arrundenvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.4 km