Lower Denby is a small village within the civil parish of Denby Dale, and the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.
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Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 8 miles north-west of Barnsley and 10 miles south-east of Huddersfield.
The village is the main village in the Denby Dale civil parish that also covers Lower Denby, Upper Denby, Upper Cumberworth, Lower Cumberworth, Skelmanthorpe, Emley, Emley Moor and Clayton West. The parish had a population of 14,982 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 16,365 at the 2011 census. The parish council gives the electorate of the village itself as 2,143. The River Dearne runs through the village; in the floods of 2007 it burst its banks on two occasions and caused damage to Springfield Mill.
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Upper Denby is a small village within the civil parish of Denby Dale, and the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.
Lying 7 miles north-west of Barnsley and 11 miles to the south-east of Huddersfield and 2 miles south of Denby Dale, on an east facing slope of the Pennines, it occupies a position 820 feet above sea level.
The southern edge of the village is bordered by the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley within the county of South Yorkshire.
The name Denby derives from the Old English Dene meaning 'the Danes', and the Old Norse bȳ meaning 'village'.
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Denby Dale Viaduct is a grade II listed railway viaduct in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, England. The curving viaduct carries the Penistone line over the Dearne valley in Denby Dale. The viaduct is constructed of stone, but the first viaduct to carry the line in that location was made of wood, being replaced by the current structure in 1880. The abutments of the former viaduct are easily discernible against the western side of the present viaduct.
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Denby Dale railway station serves the village of Denby Dale and the surrounding area, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Penistone Line, 9.5 miles south-east of Huddersfield, and is operated by Northern Trains.
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Gunthwaite is a hamlet in the civil parish of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is on the boundary of Kirklees in West Yorkshire. Until 1974 it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The settlement can be traced back over 1,000 years.
The name Gunthwaite derives from the Old Norse Gunhildþveit meaning 'Gunhild's clearing'.
Within the parish is located Gunthwaite Hall, former seat of the Bosville family. Its 16th century Grade I listed close-studded cruck barn is still in agricultural use and has been described as "one of the glories of the parish". Also to be found nearby is Gunthwaite Spa, a sulphur-rich spring whose waters emerge from a pipe set in a stone recess by the side of Carr Lane. Here, the old practice of celebrating Spaw Sunday still survives to this day.
Gunthwaite was formerly a township in the parish of Penistone, in 1866 Gunthwaite became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1938 the parish was abolished and merged with Ingbirchworth to form "Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth". In 1931 the parish had a population of 64.
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