Meltham
Meltham is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England.
It lies in the Holme Valley, below Wessenden Moor, 5 miles south-west of Huddersfield on the edge of the Peak District National Park. It had a population of 8,089 at the 2001 census, which was estimated to have increased to 8,600 by 2005. The population assessed at the 2011 Census was 8,534. According to the 2021 Census, the civil parish of Meltham had a population of 8,590 people living in 3,695 households.
Getting around Meltham the local way
- 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, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.
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