Denby Dale

Denby Dale
Holy Trinity Church
Denby Dale Denby Dale shown within West Yorkshire
Population	14,982 (2001)
OS grid reference	SE229084
Civil parish	Denby Dale
Metropolitan borough	Kirklees
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HUDDERSFIELD
Postcode district	HD8
Dialling code	01484
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Dewsbury
List of places UK England Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°34′19″N 1°39′18″W / 53.572000°N 1.655000°W / 53.572000; -1.655000

Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England, to the south east of Huddersfield. As a civil parish it covers the villages of Denby Dale, Lower Denby, Upper Denby, Upper Cumberworth, Lower Cumberworth, Skelmanthorpe, Emley, Emley Moor. The parish had a population of 14,982 according to the 2001 census.^[1] The parish council gives the electorate of the village itself as 2,143.^[2] The river that runs though the village is called the River Dearne and was part of the 2007 United Kingdom floods.

History

First recorded as Denby Dyke. Before the industrial revolution it was a sparsely-populated village with a small textile industry. In 1825, the village was located at the crossroads of the Barnsley to Shepley Lane Head and the Wakefield to Denby Dale roads. Within 25 years, factories and mills had been built and had a railway station on the Penistone Line. Denby Dale provided the textile industry with raw materials, coal, and transportation. Silk used for the Queen Mother's wedding dress was made at Springfield Mill. With the economy flourishing, the population increased and the village grew.

Education

Gilthwaites First School provides education from reception to year 5. The school is now part of a federation with Denby Dale Nursery. Denby Dale Nursery School received an outstanding OFSTED report in 2012. Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School is a voluntary aided primary school associated with the Church of England in Upper Denby. The school has two classes, infants and juniors, with the infants running through years reception to year 2 and the juniors running through the years 3 to 5. At the turn of the millennium, there were around 40 to 50 pupils in the school.

Denby Dale pies

Denby Dale has a tradition of baking giant pies, it started in 1788 to celebrate the recovery of King George III from his mental illness. To date ten pies have been made as part of nine pie festivals. In August 1887, a pie had been baked to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The pie spoiled and was consequently buried in quick lime.^[3]^[4]^[5] Following its burial, a replacement pie (the 'resurrection' pie) was baked in September 1887. The sixth pie was baked on 1 August 1896, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the repeal of the corn laws. The seventh (the Infirmary Pie) raised money to endow a cot at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. The eighth pie, in 1964, was to celebrate four royal births but was marred by the deaths of four committee members in a car accident while returning from filming in London for a pilot of a television show (later to become the Eamonn Andrews Show). This eighth pie raised money for a village hall.^[6] The most recent was made in 2000, weighing 12 tonnes (13 tons) to celebrate the new millennium. Denby Dale Pies was founded in the village.^[7]

Transport

Denby Dale viaduct

The village is served by Denby Dale railway station.

Notable people

Paul Copley, actor
Daniel Kitson, comedian

Nearby places

Towns and cities: Barnsley, Huddersfield, Wakefield

Villages: Birdsedge, Clayton West, Emley, High Flatts, Lower Cumberworth, Lower Denby, Scissett, Shelley, Shepley, Skelmanthorpe, Upper Cumberworth, Upper Denby

References

↑ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Kirklees Retrieved 3 September 2009
↑ Denby Dale Parish Council : Population by District retrieved 3 September 2009. Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Welcome to our village of Denby Dale". Retrieved 14 April 2015.
↑ "A short history of the Denby Dale Pies". Yorkshire First. 2008. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
↑ "The Pie's the limit in Denby Dale!". Bradford & West Yorkshire. BBC. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
↑ The Mammoth Pies of Denby Dale. Plates and Ticket Committee. 1964.
↑ Holman, Tom (2008). A Yorkshire Miscellany. London: Frances Lincoln. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7112-2865-8.

External links

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Metropolitan districts	City of Bradford City of Leeds City of Wakefield Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees

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