Denby Dale

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. The parish council gives the electorate of the village itself as 2,143. 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.

Denby

Coordinates: 53°01′11″N 1°25′31″W / 53.01974°N 1.42531°W / 53.01974; -1.42531

Denby is a village in the English county of Derbyshire that is notable as the birthplace of John Flamsteed, England's first Astronomer Royal, and the location of the Denby Pottery Company.

Description

There is a memorial garden for John Flamsteed; opposite St Mary's church, which features the stellarsphere which shows the position of the stars and planets overhead at the current time.

Denby is three miles south-east from Belper and eight miles north of Derby. Denby is home to a secondary school which is named after John Flamsteed. It was once served by Denby railway station on the Midland Railway Ripley Branch.

The village is commemorated in the hymn tune Denby, composed in 1904 by Charles J. Dale.

Notable people

In addition to John Flamsteed:

See also

References

Denby (surname)

Denby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Denby (disambiguation)

Denby is a village in Derbyshire, England, UK.

Denby may also refer to:

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