Denby Dale

Denby Dale
Holy Trinity Church [1]
Denby Dale Location within West Yorkshire
Population	16,365 (2011 Census) [2]
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
UK Parliament	Ossett and Denby Dale
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°34′19″N1°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. 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, ^[3] increasing to 16,365 at the 2011 census. ^[2] The parish council gives the electorate of the village itself as 2,143. ^[4] 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. ^[5]

History

First recorded as Denby Dyke. Before the Industrial Revolution the village was sparsely-populated with a small textile industry 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 for the Queen Mother's wedding dress was made at Springfield Mill. With the economy flourishing, the population increased and the village grew.^{[ citation needed ]}

Transport

Denby Dale Viaduct

The village is served by Denby Dale railway station, ^[6] and also has 2 bus stops. The D1 Denby Darts bus service runs to Skelmanthorpe and Huddersfield.

Education

Denby Dale First and Nursery school (formerly known as Gilthwaites First School and Denby Dale Nursery) provides education from aged 2 to aged 10. ^[7]

Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School is a voluntary aided primary school associated with the Church of England in Upper Denby. ^[8] 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.

Pies

Denby Dale has a tradition of baking giant pies, which started in 1788 to celebrate the recovery of King George III from mental illness. To date ten pies have been made as part of nine pie festivals. In August 1887, a pie baked to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria spoiled and was buried in quicklime. ^{[9] [10] [11]} 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). The eighth pie raised money to provide a village hall. ^[12] The most recent in 2000, weighed 12 tonnes (13 tons) and celebrated the new millennium. Denby Dale Pies was founded in the village. ^[13] In 1940 it was agreed by the Denby Dale Local Comforts Fund, the giant pie dish would be sold for scrap to help the war effort. There was a procession, cricket match, dancing all followed by the selling of the dish.^{[ citation needed ]}

Notable people

• Paul Copley, actor ^[14]
• Daniel Kitson, comedian ^[15]

See also

• Listed buildings in Denby Dale

References

1. This church was opened in 1939 to replace a "tin church" dating from 1893.--Friends of Churchfield; history
2. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Denby Dale Parish (E04000181)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 30 April 2020.
3. UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Denby Dale Parish (00CZ001)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 30 April 2020.
4. "Population by District". Denby Dale Parish Council. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
5. "Counting the costs of the floods". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 26 June 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
6. Body, Geoffrey (1989). Railways of the Eastern Region. Wellingborough: P. Stephens. p. 32. ISBN   1-85260-072-1.
7. Denby Dale First and Nursery School Edubase2, Department of Education. Retrieved 8 January 2017
8. Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School Edubase2, Department of Education. Retrieved 8 January 2017
9. "Welcome to our village of Denby Dale" . Retrieved 14 April 2015.
10. "A short history of the Denby Dale Pies". Yorkshire First. 2008. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
11. "The Pie's the limit in Denby Dale!". Bradford & West Yorkshire. BBC. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
12. The Mammoth Pies of Denby Dale. Plates and Ticket Committee. 1964.
13. Holman, Tom (2008). A Yorkshire Miscellany. London: Frances Lincoln. p. 31. ISBN   978-0-7112-2865-8.
14. "Exclusive interview with Denby Dale born actor Paul Copley". The Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 12 July 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
15. "Reluctant star Kitson earns the plaudits on comedy circuit". The Yorkshire Post. 16 May 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

External links

• Denby Dale Village website
• Denby Dale Parish Council
• Photoblog from Denby Dale and the surrounding area
• Artists/Photographers Documenting Denby Dale
• Denby Dale Visitor Information