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 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.
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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.
- 01Church 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 - 02Holme 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 - 03Digley 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 - 04Meltham 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
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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 → Upperthong79 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Upperthong81 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Upperthong121 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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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