Denby Dale
West Yorkshire
The village is just over 7 miles south east of
The Denby Dale Viaduct carrying the Huddersfield-Penistone-Sheffield railway across the valley of the River Dearne is a distinctive feature of the village together with memorabilia commemorating a succession of world-beating giant meat and potato pies made in the village.
The village's pie-making tradition has been continued since 1788 when a pie was made to celebrate the recovery of King George III from mental illness.
In 1887 a pie made to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee was rancid and had to be buried in the woods, but the most recent big Denby Dale pie was a properly cooked recreation of that 1887 pie made in 2012 for the Channel 5 TV programme The Great Northern Cookbook.
The biggest meat and potato pie to have been paraded through Denby Dale was the 12 tonne Millennium Pie in 2000.
Denby Dale also lends its name to the civil parish covering several surrounding villages and hamlets and run as Denby Dale Parish Council, although its office is in the village of
The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the village dates from 1799 and was enlarged in 1839. The village's Anglican church, Holy Trinity, at the end of Norman Road, was built in the late 1930s.
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Travel
Denby Dale station

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Bus travel
The village has buses to neighbouring towns and villages.
Road travel
Denby Dale can be reached via the A635 A636
Places to Visit
Peak District National Park
Kirklees Light Railway
The Kirklees Light Railway is a 15-inch-gauge light railway on the trackbed of the former Clayton West branch line from the Huddersfield-Penistone-Sheffield line. The branch had survived the Beeching axe of the 1960s but eventually closed to coal traffic in 1979 and passengers from the large commuter villages of
More information at the

National Coal Mining Museum for England
The National Coal Mining Museum for England is mid-way between
More details at the

Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is the UK's leading open-air sculpture gallery, situated at More information at the
Yorkshire Sculpture Park website.

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Emergency services
West Yorkshire Police 
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Local government
Civil parish council
Denby Dale Parish CouncilProvides some local services in the area.
Link to council website

Metropolitan district council

Kirklees Council covers a large metropolitan district based in
They include those in the former county borough of
Kirklees Council is made up of 69 councillors with three councillors per ward in 23 wards. Councillors are elected for four-year terms with one-third involved in elections in three out of four years. Councillors elect a Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Kirklees each year. An election of one-third of the council due to be held in 2020 has been postponed to 2021.
Link to
Kirklees Council website.

The political composition after the May 2019 election was:
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Covers some combined services of the five metropolitan district councils of







The Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire Fire Authority
The fire authority is made up of elected members of each of the five metropolitan district councils of West Yorkshire - Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds, Kirklees and Wakefield.

Ceremonial county
West Yorkshire
Historic
-1974 Within the West Riding of Yorkshire